Posted on 08/02/2021 6:14:52 PM PDT by Libloather
An escalating blame game between President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats over the expiration of the federal eviction ban has left local officials frustrated and scrambling to deal with a wave of renters now at risk of losing their homes.
The Biden administration on Monday rebuffed calls from Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other top Democrats to revive the eviction moratorium, which expired Saturday, after unsuccessfully leaning on Congress to enact its own ban last week.
The White House said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lacked legal authority to reinstitute the eviction prohibition - even on a limited or targeted basis - because the Supreme Court had made clear it believed the CDC overstepped its authority.
Facing a deadlock, Pelosi and White House officials pleaded with governors and mayors to fill the void, in part by speeding up the delivery of more than $46.5 billion in federal rental assistance that has languished as state and local governments struggled to stand up programs to deliver the funds. Local officials complained that the finger-pointing was unhelpful.
“We don’t need the recriminations,” said Michael Thurmond, chief executive officer of DeKalb County, Ga., which issued its own 60-day county-wide ban after the federal moratorium expired this weekend. “We just need to come together and save these families from a potentially catastrophic set of circumstances.”
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Anyone notice that the republicans and the conservatives are doing nothing to speak out for the landlords that are losing their homes or will lose their homes. And not just the ones that they rent, but the ones that they live in. Anyone going to speak out for the landlords that have not money to eat or pay their bills? Anyone going to speak out for the landlords that are losing their vehicles and everything they own? There may be a lot of suicides on the way.
So if the landlords go broke....my guess is these rental properties will be bought up by companies like Black Rock. How convenient.
I rented a house once years ago. I needed the rent to pay the mortgage on that house. I would have lost the property if this moratorium would have happened back then.
Not my rent
Not my bill.
Why do they want me to pay others rent?
So ashamed!😶/sarc
So question is, for the Black Rock types...where is all this money coming from...???
Don’t fool yourself. Plenty of properties are raising rents on paying tenants to make up for the short fall. My new agreement here in GA went up 20%. It’s ridiculous.
First thing I thought too. NOT THEIR HOMES.
This is not about renters. It is about freeing up housing for illegals. Rent will now be paid to landlords through the BP budget. US citizens be damned.
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