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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRepublicans invite 'avalanche of evictions' in a pandemic, in the middle of winter
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/12/24/2003923/-Republicans-invite-avalanche-of-evictions-in-a-pandemic-in-the-middle-of-winterRepublicans invite 'avalanche of evictions' in a pandemic, in the middle of winter
Joan McCarter
Daily Kos Staff
Thursday December 24, 2020 · 1:04 PM EST
So it's Christmas Eve. Republicans have blocked the thing Donald Trump demanded in return for signing the coronavirus relief and government funding bill$2,000 survival checks. Senate Republicans are blowing off the whole premise of helping people. Extended unemployment benefits from the CARES Act expire Saturday. Government funding expires on Monday at midnight, along with current pandemic response efforts. Assistance to renters$25 billion in emergency aidand an extension on the federal eviction moratorium are dependent on Trump signing this bill, and Republicans just have "thoughts and prayers" that he'll do it.
All this while an "avalanche of evictions" is starting to roll, as the eviction moratorium expires at the end of Thursday, Christmas Eve. The census estimates that 11.3 million households are either behind on their rent or won't be able to pay next month's rent. Moody's Analytics figures there is a $70 billion backlog in unpaid rent. Landlords have to live, too, and hundreds of thousands have filed eviction notices in local courts pending the expiration of the moratorium.
That means hundreds of thousands of peopleincluding households with childrenare going to be thrown out of their homes. Those evictions will, once again, hit communities of color disproportionately hard. It will put people out of their homesduring a pandemicand into crowded shelters or in doubled-up housing with family or friends. It will only worsen infection rates. In the middle of winter. That's what Trump is doing. And Republicans have no plan to stop him from doing it.
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Republicans invite 'avalanche of evictions' in a pandemic, in the middle of winter (Original Post)
babylonsister
Dec 2020
OP
The Republican death cult, aka Grifting Oligarchs Party, considers you expendable.
Hermit-The-Prog
Dec 2020
#4
CurtEastPoint
(18,732 posts)1. Be prepared also for an onslaught of abandoned dogs and cats.
Blue Owl
(50,900 posts)2. This Georgia runoff election is gonna be so important
If we can win that and hang on until Jan. 20, then hope will not be lost...
Initech
(100,262 posts)3. We are currently being run by psychopaths.
Hermit-The-Prog
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Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)5. The worse seems to be coming from
States with Republican Governors and Republican Legislatures.