With Evictions Looming, Congress Strains To Extend Ban

[appalachiablue]

Source: AP News

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hours before a nationwide eviction moratorium is set to expire, Congress raced Friday to try to extend the ban in a long-shot effort to prevent millions of Americans from being forced from their homes during a COVID-19 surge.

A House panel convened to consider emergency legislation to extend the ban, which expires Saturday. But no vote has been set. Congressional leaders and the White House struggled to rally support.

More than 3.6 million Americans are at risk of eviction, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has implored colleagues to act, calling it a “moral imperative” to protect renters and also the landlords who are owed compensation.

But facing difficulty in quickly passing a measure through Congress, Pelosi on Friday urged the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to continue the moratorium, despite President Joe Biden’s announcement ruling out administration action. She was preparing legislation that would direct the CDC to extend the ban through Oct. 18, in line with the health emergency...

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-business-health-coronavirus-pandemic-us-supreme-court-65d530199d4dd2c99b9839fcd9c22294

[FBaggins]

1. How does she expect the CDC to act?

The President just declined to have them do that (making clear that Congress needs to act), and the Supreme Court just told them that they lacked the power to issue the first moratorium. What are they supposed to do?

[appalachiablue]

2. Confusion, disaster for the people involved-

https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-business-health-coronavirus-pandemic-us-supreme-court-65d530199d4dd2c99b9839fcd9c22294

[progree]

3. So people will be thrown out in the street just as the U.S. is where Florida was about 17 days ago

About 17 days ago, Florida's daily new cases per 100,000 (7 day moving average) was 22, the same as the U.S. is now.

We've all seen the daily (at least) LBN tick-tock on Florida's Covid cases, as if it is some uniquely horrible state. Well the U.S. overall average now is about where Florida was 17 days ago, and both have their daily cases growing by about the same rate: Florida: +153% and U.S. +151% over the past 14 days (the average of the 7 days ending July 29 compared to the average of the 7 days ending July 15).

A 153% increase is a 2.53 fold increase; a 151% increase is a 2.51 fold increase.

Anyway, wasn't the idea of the original eviction moratoriums that we didn't want to have people scurrying around looking for housing or homeless in the middle of a pandemic? Is not where Florida is now (66 daily new cases per 100,000, and growing at a rate of 6.85%/day which is a doubling time of 10 1/2 days) a full-scale pandemic? At the current U.S. new Covid growth rate, won't the U.S. average be there in about 17 days?

U.S.: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html
Florida: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/florida-covid-cases.html

Florida is about 4 days away from it's all time peak daily new cases 7 day moving average set on January 8 (but since they report cases only weekly, their 7 day averages progress in stair-step fashion).

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The top 15 states per 100,000 population in daily new cases (7 day moving averages):
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=2778047

Louisiana is #1 in this metric, by the way, Florida is #2. And Louisiana's cases are growing much faster.