But that doesn’t imply that the tenant’s previous eviction case was suddenly moot. “ No reasonable tenant would conclude from the receipt of this letter, not addressed directly to the tenant but to ...

Claiming that it never received such written notice as required by the lease, Cummings informed the tenant that its lease had automatically been extended through Nov. 30, 2021.

An earlier version of this article misstated the Biden administration’s role in a rule requiring landlords of federally subsidized housing properties to give tenants a 30-day notice before eviction.