Experts fear the end of eviction moratoriums could plunge thousands of people into homelessness

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Eviction moratoriums nationwide are set to expire later this month, potentially thrusting tens of thousands of people into a housing crisis.

Congress in March passed a federal mandate prohibiting evictions or foreclosures until July 24 in response to the coronavirus pandemic. But as the deadline quickly approaches, experts warn that unless Congress passes more relief, renters might be forced out on the streets.

Across the country, thousands of evictions are either pending or processing, possibly setting up a wave of newly homeless people in the next few months. The pandemic has pushed millions of Americans into unemployment, leaving many unable to keep up with monthly rent and food demands.

In Tucson, Arizona, the courts are processing an average of 52 eviction cases per day, up from the normal 10 to 30 cases, according to the Arizona Daily Star. In Tennessee, more than 9,000 eviction hearings are pending, about 33% more cases than normal for this time of year, the Memphis Commercial Appeal reported.

Homeless and housing services experts in New York are seeing signs that there will be a spike in the population of newly homeless people in the coming months.

No concrete data yet exists that quantifies the number of newly homeless people nationally. But in New York, “we still anecdotally have seen some people become newly homeless due to informal evictions, particularly for people who did not have a formal lease in their name,” said Jacquelyn Simone, policy analyst at the Coalition for the Homeless.

Large numbers of these people “were paying week by week for room rentals and lost their source of income due to the pandemic. Many of those people have become newly homeless, because they might not have realized what their protections were.”

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This country is so based on theft of land, it makes sense that we have basically made it so people have to do without income and childcare but people who own structures and land are still due their money no matter what.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Landlords are people too, and for the most part depend upon the rent to pay their bills. That said, unless you think you'll have someone else moving in soon, it makes sense for landlords to be flexible.

[Horus]

Landlords are people too, and for the most part depend upon the rent to pay their bills. That said, unless you think you'll have someone else moving in soon, it makes sense for landlords to be flexible.

You sure about that?

[lfromnj]

Also I wonder how many of these evictions are even COVID related, I always found the eviction moratorium absurd as a blanket ban, it should have been a COVID related ban, if your trial started in February and you were in the wrong you should have been kicked and a landlord shouldn't have to deal with a tenant tearing apart their home for a few more months with 0 pay etc.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Landlords are people too, and for the most part depend upon the rent to pay their bills. That said, unless you think you'll have someone else moving in soon, it makes sense for landlords to be flexible.

You sure about that?

Well most of them that aren't soulless corporations. Make things tough for small landlords and the end result will be more of the rental market being controlled by corporations.

[Torrain]

Horribly reminiscent of a similar situation that almost exactly a century ago.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooverville

[RINO Tom]

Landlords are people too, and for the most part depend upon the rent to pay their bills. That said, unless you think you'll have someone else moving in soon, it makes sense for landlords to be flexible.

You sure about that?

Bro you usually seem ... I don’t know, like, logical and not ... dumb.

[John Dule]

This country is so based on theft of land

I'm confused. Are you talking about the land we stole from the British in the War of Independence, the land we bought from the French in the Louisiana Purchase, or the land we took from the Mexicans that they had already taken from the Spanish, which had in turn been taken from the Natives?

[CookieDamage]

I mean if y'all are gonna be okay with thousands of people being pushed into homelessness cuz "landlords are people to " well guess what? Landlords were struggling with bills before and are gonna be struggling even more with no one to pay rent at all. I mean, you'd think it'd be smart to keep current tenants in their homes because it's a safe bet to assume once they get back to work, they'd start paying rent again. Unless landlords wanna kick out people who are most likely out of work. Then what, wait for new people to rent these apartments en masse? I highly doubt there's a whole lot of people out there with the means to get a new apartment.

What should be happening is aid for landlords so they don't have to kick out renters.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

I mean if y'all are gonna be okay with thousands of people being pushed into homelessness cuz "landlords are people to " well guess what? Landlords were struggling with bills before and are gonna be struggling even more with no one to pay rent at all. I mean, you'd think it'd be smart to keep current tenants in their homes because it's a safe bet to assume once they get back to work, they'd start paying rent again. Unless landlords wanna kick out people who are most likely out of work. Then what, wait for new people to rent these apartments en masse? I highly doubt there's a whole lot of people out there with the means to get a new apartment.

What should be happening is aid for landlords so they don't have to kick out renters.

Agreed. But a simple moratorium on evictions doesn't do that. Tho to be fair, a simple moratorium is not how the Federal moratorium has been working as it applied only to landlords with a Federally backed mortgage or other Federal assistance and gave them assistance in exchange for forgoing evictions. Still, considering that most rent control programs in this country began as "temporary" programs during WW II, a simple extension of the current moratorium is not desirable either. Ideally, any extension should be until certain economic conditions are met rather than until a particular date. That would avoid an endless series of renewals as well political posturing causing moratoriums to end way too soon.

[Pyro]

Socialism for the rich and rugged individualism for the poor.

[Badger]

I mean if y'all are gonna be okay with thousands of people being pushed into homelessness cuz "landlords are people to " well guess what? Landlords were struggling with bills before and are gonna be struggling even more with no one to pay rent at all. I mean, you'd think it'd be smart to keep current tenants in their homes because it's a safe bet to assume once they get back to work, they'd start paying rent again. Unless landlords wanna kick out people who are most likely out of work. Then what, wait for new people to rent these apartments en masse? I highly doubt there's a whole lot of people out there with the means to get a new apartment.

What should be happening is aid for landlords so they don't have to kick out renters.

The point is landlord's Cannon will make a choice as to whether or not there are other applicants who can make rent payment as opposed to are currently tenants Who definitely aren't. Any case were a landlord wants to evict a tenant but can't has already made that decision.

At minimum, at least their house isn't getting the wear and tear of being lived in month after month with nothing to show for it rentwise. I would much much rather have a house be sitting empty for three months rather than having tenants live in it for that period without paying rent.

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Horribly reminiscent of a similar situation that almost exactly a century ago.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooverville

California already has tons of Obama/Trump villes.

[Badger]

Horribly reminiscent of a similar situation that almost exactly a century ago.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooverville

California already has tons of Obama/Trump villes.

"Obamavilles"

THERE'S the j f e r n we all know and grit our teeth when having to read.