Evictions expected to spike as coronavirus moratoriums end

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Elizabeth Anderson is the kind of person who goes out of her way to help people in need.

Old folks stuck at home? She’ll clean their bathrooms and vacuum their carpets. Neighbors with hungry kids? She’ll share what she has left in her kitchen. A woman standing at a bus stop with two small children late at night? She’ll offer them a place to stay.

But now the 57-year-old Charleston, South Carolina, resident needs help herself. When the spread of coronavirus shut down her bed-and-breakfast cleaning business in March, she lost her income and was unable to pay the rent on her house. That landed Anderson among thousands of Americans staring at the abyss of homelessness as states begin to lift moratoriums on evictions that have been in place since the start of the pandemic three months ago.

So far, 24 states are now processing evictions again, and that number is expected to climb to at least 30 states by the end of June.

Not all renters in those jurisdictions are vulnerable, though. Nearly 30% continue to be protected by a federal moratorium under the CARES Act that will remain in place until July 25. The rest -- like Anderson -- live in properties that are either not subsidized by the federal government or are owned by landlords with loans that are not federally backed.

For these unprotected renters, the threat of eviction is very real – especially for those at the bottom of the economic ladder. With tens of millions of workers unemployed and the economy expected to remain shaky until there’s a vaccine and consumers feel safe enough to travel, dine out and go to theme parks and movies again -- homelessness could come at any time.

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1. Billions

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Billions for billionaires. Plenty of filthy lucre doled out secretly to the crony club and we can't even find out who because it is a slush fund of blank checks to those considered the most deserving in the Hoover Vacuum of the Gushing Up Economy.

You can almost see the vultures of Vulture Capitalism ready to swoop down and pick the remaining meat off of our bones when the time comes. The bones can be ground down as well and used to make their bread.

From experience and anecdote, I know that, once you go homeless it is like being unplugged from The Matrix. Getting housed again and stable can be like winning a lottery. We are most likely going to see the Trumpvilles forming and homeless walking the streets before the GE.

Let's drop the stereotypes about that, huh? There is a wide swath of different types of people with different problems that are not necessarily drug/crime/mental health related. I will tell you though that, after you plunge into the frightening world of living on the streets and out of doors, even you might find yourself doing things you never imagined just to cope or get by. It can be very hopeless and lead to being imprisoned, attacked and violated, etc., and a very early demise.

Many of our working seniors will be part of that population, as well. Don't step on Grandma or Grandpa when you walk down the street.

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2. I see bad times ahead. Add in that a lot of people will

run out of money soon and credit cards will max out as will any unemployment, if they were lucky enough to get enrolled. Will they be able to pay those bills? Will they be able to pay 3-400 dollar a month car note plus insurance? Being broke, in deep debt, no car and no home is very dark place, indeed.

Desperate people do desperate things.

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3. I do too.

One of the main points of having a functional government, to me, is to have a collective tool to deal with our societal issues effectively.

From what we have both said, that would be to see a major problem as it develops and then to find ways to mitigate the negative impacts that are anticipated. I am not saying that our government has always been right on it, so to speak and there has been both denial and failure to act, but now, we have not even a hint of that happening during this term. That's what adds to the catastrophe to come as it builds momentum without any proactive interventions.

Any resources we have are being withheld, squandered, sold to the highest bidder or passed out in the current slush fund for cronies. That leaves little room for confidence in recovering. We may have to watch Rome burn while the Administration hides the fire extinguishers and then, see if we can rebuild from the rubble.

Oh, and the next Administration is going to have one of the greatest challenges we may ever face on its hands. High competence is going to be essential.