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Eviction Tsunami Looms Despite Congress $46B Rent Relief: Black Families, Single Moms Most At Risk
Daily Kos, July 11, 2021. - Excerpts, Ed.
The federal eviction moratorium ends July 31, and when it does, millions of people will be at risk of being thrown out of their homes. Congress has passed $46 billion in rental assistance, but much of that money remains unspent, while families count the days until eviction notices go out. The December COVID-19 relief bill included $25 billion in rental assistance. As of the end of May, just $1.5 billion had been spent. Theres even $425 million from the March 2020 CARES Act that still hasnt made it to renters.
It may not surprise you to learn that, with the states in charge of allocating the money, performance from state to state has been wildly uneven. According to data recently released by the Treasury Department, Virginia and Texas have been bright spots, allocating $155.5 million and $139.8 million in aid between January and May. Rhode Island, by contrast, managed to pay out just $100,000, and that didnt happen until May. In between, youve got Georgia giving out $11 million of an available $552 million, North Dakota at $3.4 million of $200 million, North Carolina providing $73 million out of $546 million and California distributing $73 million of $1.4 billion.
Fewer than 100,000 households were helped in April, rising to almost 160,000 in May. That leaves millions of households still in danger of eviction, according to Census Bureau surveys. And eviction is life-shattering: In addition to the loss of a home and possessions, and children often having to switch schools abruptly, Princeton Universitys Eviction Lab explains, "A legal eviction comes with a court record, which can prevent families from relocating to decent housing in a safe neighborhood, because many landlords screen for recent evictions.
Studies also show that eviction causes job loss, as the stressful and drawn-out process of being forcibly expelled from a home causes people to make mistakes at work and lose their job. Eviction also has been shown to affect people's mental health.. The evidence strongly indicates that eviction is not just a condition of poverty, it is a cause of it.".. This crushing damage will fall unevenly: Black families and single mothers are the most likely to face eviction. The Biden administration is trying to avert this crisis by getting rental assistance money out, but the outcomes arent under federal control...
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Eviction Tsunami Looms Despite Congress $46B Rent Relief: Black Families, Single Moms Most At Risk (Original Post)
appalachiablue
Jul 2021
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Solly Mack
(90,764 posts)1. K&R
OldBaldy1701E
(5,126 posts)2. By all means
Force a sizeable percentage of the population out into the streets. Whole families living under bridges. Hordes of teens running around at night with no hope and therefore no reason to give a rat's ass about anyone or anything. Go ahead. Watch what happens. (Because if nothing happens, then this country is truly dead. Oh, there will be something here, but the U.S.A. will be all but gone, except in name and propaganda only.)