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Local Eviction Moratoriums Aren t Enough to Avert Housing Crisis, Say Activists
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Over 10 Million People Could Become Homeless When Eviction Moratorium Ends
Tenant rights activists hold a demonstration outside the home of New York State Senator Brian Kavanagh to protest what they claim to be inadequate legislative relief for renters during the COVID-19 pandemic and to call for the cancellation of rent, February 28, 2021, in the East Village neighborhood of New York City.
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After more than a year of economic, social and spiritual upheaval, Americans are beginning to see the light at the end of the COVID tunnel. While infection rates are not yet stable in the U.S., hospitalizations remain on the decline, and the vaccine is now available to everyone. A return to something close to normal life feels tantalizingly close.
The news out of Kansas is bad. As
The Chronicle’s
Emma Pettit explains, as of last week, “the state’s six public universities can more expeditiously suspend and fire employees, including tenured faculty members.” And that’s
without declaring a state of financial exigency, which is typically the requisite condition for getting rid of tenured faculty members.
Right now, the University of Kansas in Lawrence is the only one of the six universities in the Kansas system not to rule out adopting the measure.
Ani Kokobobo, who teaches Slavic literature and languages at the Lawrence campus, describes the fear and anger on the ground. Even more afraid than the newly vulnerable tenured faculty are the staff, as Kokobobo explains: “When faculty members like me speak up, staff members rush to thank us they often do not feel they could speak openly without risking their jobs.” When even tenure is no good, what protection does anyone else have?