New York’s statewide eviction moratorium will be extended to Jan. 15, 2022, Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office announced on Thursday. The state’s lawmakers voted to extend the residential and commercial eviction moratorium on Wednesday, when Hochul convened a special session of the state legislature for the vote. She later signed the measure into law, which will extend the eviction ban that was set to expire on Aug. 31. The move comes after the U.S. Supreme Court last month struck down the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) eviction moratorium, as well as part of New York state’s eviction moratorium. “The pandemic has created unimaginable anxiety for families and business owners who have lost income and are struggling to pay the rent every month,” Hochul said in a statement on Thursday. “To help remedy the Supreme Court’s heartless decisions striking down the New York and the Biden administration’s moratoriums on evictions, we are enacting …