App. Washington journal continues. Host we are joined by diane yentel, who is president and ceo of the National Low Income Housing Coalition. Talk about the federal moratorium about to expire on evictions in the u. S. Diane yentel about the federal moratorium about to expire on and if addictions in the us. Thank you for being with us this morning,. Thank you for having me. What is it that your group does . A Membership Organization advancing federal policies solutions to ensure that low income people have affordable and accessible homes. Host give us an idea how many renters there are in the unitedre states. There are about 43 million renter households with over 100 Million People in thosese households. Host since the pandemic with the idea on evictions typically how many people are evicted from their apartment or home for failure to pay rrent . And how has that problem increased or has it . The risk of evictions has increased during the pandemic because of the financial fallout as a r
The hearing is two hours. Good morning. The hearing will come to order. I want to thank acting secretary wolf for his service and for taking the time to come before our committee today. I know you have a lot of things on your plate. The committee appreciate you taking the time out to explain what has been happening and answering our questions. Your full testimony will be entered into the record. For my part, i will read my Opening Statement and then there will be a twominute video at the tail end of my statement. The federal protective Service Officer David Patrick underwood was 53 on may 29 when he was shot dead guarding a Federal Building during a protest. His partner was also shot but thankfully survived. News reports of the protests involving approximately 8000 people turned chaotic and violent as demonstrators smashed windows, looted stores, and broke into a bank. The suspect had killed a deputy a few days before. His antipolice views drew him to oakland. He saw the protest as an
Moratorium on evictions during the coronavirus pandemic. Later, the moodys analytics chief economist joins us to talk about the state of the u. S. Economy. Host the house and senate are one week into what should be there august resource recess. Negotiationsld and between Democratic Leaders and the white house appear to have yielded no result, certainly, no agreement on additional coronavirus pandemic relief measures. Good morning. It is friday, august 7, 2020. This first hour, we will ask you your message to congress, in particular, congressional leaders on pandemic relief. Here are the lines. We welcome your text messages. Make sure you tell us your name and where you are texting from. Ur handle on twitter we also welcome your comments on facebook. A very similar sentiment expressed in headlines and reporting of capitol hill publications and other publications on those negotiations which ended last night well into the evening. This is roll call. Show you the report just out from the A
Posted by the National Low Income Housing Coalition, my name is dave darcy and were glad youre able to join us for this live conversation with president and ceo day diane yentel and ibram kendi. We encourage you to submit questions for doctor kendi and if you start to have a question for our support team, click here on that right side of the screen. The event will be available on the site within 24 hours and is now my pleasure to turn it over to diane yentel. Thank you dave and welcome everyone to todays conversation with doctor ibram kendi on Racial Equity before and after the covid19 pandemic. Im glad almost 5000 people have registered today. Im heartened and encouraged by the level of interest in this topic so i am diane yentel, president and ceo of the National Housing coalition, where a Membership Organization dedicated to achieving socially just Public Policies and ensuring that the lowest income people have decent, accessible and affordable homes. And as part of that work you ha
York city and congressional efforts to provide Financial Relief to efforts to individuals and businesses. [camera shutters] President Trump thank you very much. Been a very busy day. I want to thank the American People for the incredible sacrifices that they are making on behalf of our nation and i want to encourage everyone to keep following our guidelines on social distancing, avoid large gatherings and hand washing that Everybody Knows they are supposed to be doing. Ultimately, the goal is to ease the guidelines and open things up to very large sections of our the end ofwe near our historic battle with the invisible enemy. But we will win. I said earlier today that i hope we can do this by easter. I think that would be a great thing for our country and were all working very hard to make that a reality. We will be meeting with a lot of people to see if it can be done. Easter is a very special day for many reasons and for me, a lot of our friends. Thats a very special day. And what a