Posted on 07/27/2021 10:54:57 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Over the course of the pandemic, Washington allotted a lot of money to help tenants who couldn’t keep up with the rent: $46.6 billion. That’s almost twice as much as, and on top of, what the government usually spends each year helping low-income renters through the Housing Choice Voucher Program, better known as Section 8. The number was at least in the right ballpark to cover the payments missed by the country’s roughly 43 million renter households, many of whom lost jobs when the economy contracted last year.
But a safety net only works if you can get it set up where it needs to be, and all these months into the crisis, local jurisdictions are still not doing a very good job. As Annie Lowrey puts it, writing about government benefits more broadly, “little attention is being paid to making things work, rather than making them exist.” Of the $25 billion the U.S. Treasury doled out this February for rent relief, local partners had delivered just $3 billion by June 30.
That’s particularly important this week because the eviction moratorium enacted by the Centers for Disease Control last September expires on Saturday, July 31. That public-health order has not given tenants ironclad protection, but it does appear to have kept evictions below prepandemic rates in jurisdictions without their own moratoriums, including cities like Cincinnati and Dallas and states like Indiana and Missouri, according to data from Princeton University’s Eviction Lab.
In other words, beginning next week, millions of families may face evictions that should have been avoided.
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> especially immigrants without documents.
Illegal aliens.
Our son is doing the HVAC part of a Section 8 complex tear out and remodel.
Do you know what Section 8 people do to apartments? He can tell you.
Giving more money is not the solution. Keeping people working is the solution.
“... the eviction moratorium enacted by the Centers for Disease Control...”
THERE is your problem, right there.
Who the hell gave them the power to enact anything at all, let alone something to do with rent? (Answer: Nobody!)
Financial institutions should have been FORCED to defer all monthly payments for the same time period without any stipulations. If they had done that, the shutdown would have never occurred and Trump would still be President.
That's good. Make the applications longer.
My heartfelt condolences to you friends. The communists would love to take their property and redistribute it.
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