Nashville never enacted a local eviction moratorium during COVID-19; Davidson County renters relied solely on the federal CDC moratorium (2020-2021) and state-administered HOPE rental assistance, with eviction filings resuming July 2021.
Tennessee state law preempts local rent and eviction regulation under TCA 66-35-101, and Metro Council declined to test that preemption with a local moratorium, instead lobbying the General Assembly and channeling federal Emergency Rental Assistance through MDHA's HOPE program. The CDC moratorium covered Nashville from September 2020 until the Supreme Court vacated it in August 2021. Davidson County General Sessions Court paused detainer hearings in spring 2020 but resumed by July. Today, no local moratorium framework exists; future emergencies would face the same preemption hurdle and require state-level action.
No local penalties apply; landlords who improperly invoked CARES Act covered-property exemptions during the federal moratorium faced FTC and state attorney general actions, but Metro had no enforcement role.
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