About 100 people chanted in the rain Tuesday morning to demand an end to Alameda County’s residential eviction moratorium, which the Board of Supervisors may shutter in two months or let expire.

The moratorium under current county law will expire 60 days after the end of the local COVID-19 health emergency, which ended Tuesday, county officials said.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.