Across Nevada, an estimated 46,000 households — or about 9 percent of renter households in the state — are behind on rent. Their futures play out every week in virtual and in-person courtrooms.

Summary evictions in the Silver State are a uniquely expedited and murky process, leaving tenants with the burden to defend themselves.

Though the high court's late Thursday decision places hundreds of thousands of tenants across the country at risk of eviction, Nevada tenants are still protect by AB486.

The latest ban from the CDC is meant to give renters time to catch up with the payments using the billions of federal rental assistance dollars that have been allocated, but are trickling out slowly.

Democratic leaders were gauging support on an extension through the end of the year.

Gov. Steve Sisolak emphasized that tenants need to take action to access rental assistance funds and begin preparing for the lifting of the CDC eviction moratorium on Saturday.