Supreme Court ruling let billions of Biden's housing funds expire, causing Evictions.

[Budi]

FRIDAY:
Biden asks Congress to extend eviction moratorium 'without delay' as expiration looms
MICHAEL COLLINS | USA TODAY | July 29, 2021

President Biden calls on Congress to extend nationwide freeze on evictions.

White House says Supreme Court ruling left Biden unable to extend freeze on his own.
Eviction moratorium is set to expire Saturday.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/5416922001
Biden asks Congress to extend eviction moratorium 'without delay' as expiration looms

President Joe Biden made an urgent plea Thursday for Congress to extend a nationwide moratorium on evictions, arguing a Supreme Court ruling had left him unable to act on his own.


The eviction freeze, which is set to expire on Saturday, was put in place last September by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to protect Americans who have fallen behind on their rent during the coronavirus pandemic.

Biden extended the moratorium through the end of July; he would have “strongly supported” another extension, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement Thursday, particularly as the delta variant drives a spike in new COVID-19 infections. She said the president is concerned the uptick in cases is hitting Americans who are most likely to face evictions and lack vaccinations the hardest.

“Unfortunately, the Supreme Court has made clear that this option is no longer available,” Psaki said.
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Who thoughtlessly gave the Republicans the SC choice?

Thanks for not paying fking attention when it was spoken right in front of your faces yrs ago.

Btw Cori Bush, it was the Capitol Police who protected your courageous overnight sleepover in honor of the eviction moratorium loss.

The Capitol police you voted to defund.
You can blame the RW Supreme Court for this eviction fiasco.

Just clearing up a few facts
Maybe own it before laying the blame at the President's feet.
He didn't choose the SC.

[FBaggins]

1. ??? SCOTUS ruling didn't do anything to housing funds

It just said that the CDC lacked the authority to create the moratorium in the first place (but allowed it to continue through the expiration date)

[Budi]

2. Yes. The SC said...& it stalled the billions Biden had sent to states to prevent evictions.

It was the SC that kept him from enacting those funds now as the Pandemic is again a threat.

SC allowed only thru the end of July & no further.

Yes it was the SC

[FBaggins]

3. Don't know where you got that idea. It's entirely incorrect

The SC said that the federal moratorium on evictions had to end with the then-current expiration date.

Federal funds aimed at helping renters and landlords were independent of the CDC moratorium and the ruling did not address them except to say that letting the current date stay in place would allow a more orderly distribution of those funds.

[Budi]

7. Yes. As I read it the SC, set the deadline at end of July

Believe were both referring to a similar thing, from 2 diff angles, perhaps.

SC limited the extension but it IS indeed in Congress's hands now to fix it.
Biden was pissed because there are billions sitting untouchable while the threat of evictions looms, with the latest Covid #'s rising.


From NY Times
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2021/07/31/us/politics/eviction-moratorium-biden-housing-aid.amp.html
Adding to the urgency, Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh warned last month, when the Supreme Court allowed a one-month extension of the eviction moratorium to stand, that any further extensions would have to go through Congress. But there was little chance that Republicans on Capitol Hill would agree, and by the time White House officials asked, only two days remained before the freeze expired, angering Democratic leaders who said they had no time to build support for the move.

“Really, we only learned about this yesterday,” said Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who had publicly and privately urged senior Biden administration officials to deal with the problem themselves.

“What a devastating failure to act in a moment of crisis,” said Diane Yentel, the president of the National Low Income Housing Coalition, which had pressed for an extension of the moratorium.
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Total clusterfk, regardless, since the billions needed were made availible..

[FBaggins]

8. The CDC set the moratorium to expire at the end of July

The SC just said that the CDC couldn't extend it beyond that. Indeed... that they lacked the power to create the moratorium in the first place, but that SC wouldn't shut it down when the expiration date was almost here anyway.

But the moratorium has nothing to do with the funds.

Here's a link to review:

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/30/everything-you-need-to-know-about-applying-for-rental-assistance-.html

Note that they clearly discuss the ending of the moratorium but make clear that federal rental assistance funds are still available (including linking to a list of almost 500 programs distributing those funds).

[leftstreet]

4. She's not "blaming" Biden, she's calling for an extension n/t

[FBaggins]

6. Except an extension is her responsibility at this point

Not the president's or the CDC's.

And she's known that for a month.

[Budi]

13. K & R Thank You!

[Budi]

10. Biden ripped state leaders for sitting on rental aid for landlords and tenants impacted by the pande

President Biden ripped state leaders for sitting on rental aid for landlords and tenants impacted by the pandemic.

Earlier this week, he called on Congress to extend the eviction moratorium — several days before the federal ban was set to expire.
Rep. Hoyer asked for unanimous consent to extend the ban, which failed, and the House adjourned.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/biden-rips-states-sitting-on-rental-aid-eviction-ban-ends-2021-7%3famp

Sucks.
He's worked so damned hard to dissect the damage & present a plan to cover as many vulnerable as possible.
No easy task.

[Igel]

16. Next best thing.

Although the House and Senate aren't exactly innocent.

They knew a month or so ago that the moratorium would expire and the executive branch couldn't extend it. That left it up to Congress.

The assumption seems to be that unless Biden asks the House to do something, the House is powerless. That's humorous. And moderately offensive. But butt-covering, to be sure.


Problem with any extension is that there's no principled cut-off for letting it expire. Apparently the current unemployment rate is too high. So is 5% the right number? 4.5%? 4%? Is 1% still too high?

Houston's about to have a tsunami of evictions. Listen to one side, it's because the moratorium's about to expire. Listen to another side, it's because a lot of rent money allocated to prevent evictions hasn't been disbursed. Another side points out that the courts were essentially shut for many months so evictions were at a trickle, but that there are many reasons to evict--non-payment of rent isn't the only reason, and many of the pending eviction cases are for causes other than non-payment. (Then again, we in Houston have had more evictions than Austin, the local public radio station tells us--which makes sense because we're bigger, but I supposed what they want us to do is figure out evictions/100k or some such number and compare those.)

[abqtommy]

5. Is it time to pack the court yet? asking for a friend

[former9thward]

9. Congress has the power to extend the eviction ban.

Neither the House or Senate passed anything. This is not on Biden OR the SC. The SC said the ban could continue until July 31 but indicated that would be as far as the CDC would be allowed to go. It did not stop any housing funds. Those are on the states to deal with. That SC decision was a month ago.

I happen to believe the ban has gone on long enough and it is distorting the rental housing market. What landlord in their right mind is going to go to the trouble of rental housing when they can't get paid? None. They will stop making repairs and then where will people live?

[Budi]

12. Yes you are correct.

It is so stinkin eff'd up.

"Biden ripped state leaders for sitting on rental aid for landlords and tenants impacted by the pandemic."

[mcar]

11. Funny how actual members of Congress don't even know this

Or maybe they do?

[Budi]

14. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, of Washington said "the bill was rushed" 😟

Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., the Financial Services chairwoman who authored the emergency bill, urged her colleagues to act.

"Is it emergency enough that you're going to stop families from being put on the street?" Waters said as the Rules Committee met to consider the bill. "What the hell is going to happen to these children?"

But Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, of Washington, the top Republican on another panel handling the issue, said the Democrats' bill was rushed.

"This is not the way to legislate," she said

Cruel & selfish.
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, of Washington, bettet be primaried
🤬

[Blue Owl]

15. tRump's Supreme Court at work protecting America