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While an eviction ‘tsunami’ was widely forecast, emergency rental assistance dollars have played a pivotal role in calming the waters. Yet some tenants are.
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A public health crisis is not the time for millions of people to be put out of their homes simply because they’ve lost their jobs and incomes during a pandemic.
President Joe Biden’s plan to impose another federal eviction moratorium is surely due, in part, to intense pressure from left-leaning Democrats since the Supreme Court ruled that last fall’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention moratorium was unconstitutional. Those lawmakers warned that a “tsunami” of evictions, impacting mostly low-income renters of color, would be the inevitable result if Biden’s administration didn’t take action to stop it.