Posted on 08/22/2022 7:52:03 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
Jada Riley thought she had beaten homelessness.
The 26-year-old New Orleans resident was finally making a steady income cleaning houses during the pandemic to afford a $700-a-month, one-bedroom apartment. But she lost nearly all her clients after Hurricane Ida hit last year. Then she was fired from a grocery store job in February after taking time off to help a relative.
Two months behind on rent, she made the difficult decision last month to leave her apartment rather than risk an eviction judgment on her record. Now, she's living in her car with her 6-year-old son, sometimes spending nights at the apartments of friends or her son's father.
“I've slept outside for a whole year before. It's very depressing, I'm not going to lie,” said Riley, who often doesn't have enough money to buy gas or afford food every day.
“I don't want to have my son experience any struggles that I went through.”
Eviction filings nationwide have steadily risen in recent months and are approaching or exceeding pre-pandemic levels in many cities and states. That's in stark contrast to the pandemic, when state and federal moratoriums on evictions, combined with $46.5 billion in federal Emergency Rental Assistance, kept millions of families housed.
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I think I see the problem here.
Where is the father in all of this? I know he is alive based on the article. I’m sure there’s more to the story but most fathers wouldn’t allow their six-year-old sons to be homeless and sleep in cars with the mother.
These news stations and their parent companies are free to pay these people's rents. Better yet, have them live at their houses.
“If we can save just one anecdote...”
You know what exacerbates rental costs? Flooding the country with illegals.
The lockdowns caused the problems and now there are no solutions.
No I really don’t think you do.
Woman has made bad choices, now living them.
Why isn’t the father the custodial parent?
The “free lunch” money has been cut off.
Deal with it, serfs!
Excellent. :)
Oh, this is why they are bailing out college debt at this particular point in history. Womens’ college debt. Thats why. They got crappy degrees for tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars. Its because women are saved by gynocracies and mens taxes.
I’m due in court tomorrow morning at 10:00 am to evict a tenant. Probably will have another one in about a month.
People are going to make bad life choices. I happen to be in favor of a social safety net, but am not so naive to believe that everyone can be immunized against everything. Anecdotes like this are peddled only because they can be useful to an agenda. The radical left in pursuit of social revolution has never hesitated to crush the poor.
Many people got emergency funds, or got payment deferred for utilities during Covidiocy. To add to covidiocy these idiots pretty much acted like they didn’t have to pay, even though they could. When covidiocy ended, these people had to pay the piper, and it wasn’t pretty.
Good luck to you. Hope you get them out.
Just claim to be an ILLEGAL ALIEN and the gov’t will put you up in a $400/night hotel.
First thing I thought when reading the article. Why the hell isn’t the kid living with his father?
That was freaking hilarious!
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