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Travel to baton rouge and meet with the governor. the fema administrator will travel to jackson, mississippi, that evening and tour the damage. the last update i wanted to provide to all of you is that as part of our all across government effort approach to preventing evictions, today, attorney general merrick garland is calling on the entire legal community to take immediate action to help prevent unnecessary evictions during this public health emergency. the attorney general s call to action asked major law firms, law school students and individual lawyers to work with courts, legal service providers, and nonprofits through services to ensure access to justice for vulnerable tenants. so far, over 40 major law school deans, including from harvard, yale, stanford, columbia, howard, ucla and more have comm committed students and law clinics and the legal services corporation, the american bar association and the national housing law project have joined the commitment to immediate action ....
0 get him to the island and as long as there s communication, we ll be able to communicate with him and see what s going on there. but it s very hard to not have any word from that island and the people on it since that time. in lafite, the water was very high. our first responders, the sheriff, firefighters, louisiana national guard, some coast guard are there doing search and rescue. they re having to get boats in and out. we are sheltering those people at a playground and then i believe the state is going to coordinate, governor, for a pickup and move them out to alexandria is my understanding. and then of course our systems are down. we have no electricity, no communication. our water systems are down. we re losing pressure. we had to do a boil water advisory. our sewer system, as you know, is based on electricity, so we re going to start having back-ups there, so that s going to be a hygiene problem, and we re encouraging residents who are out of the area to stay out because we do ....
Americans are behind on the rent. more than 3 million people say that they will likely be evicted soon without help. our next guest understand the economic devastation still being felt by so many people. joining me, angela young, she herself is in danger of losing her home. sheamus roller is from the national housing law project. angela, i would like to begin with you just to tell how you re being effected by this. you re at home and taking care of an elderly relative. tell us the situation you re in right now. yeah, i m at home and taking care of several elderly relatives. i have a cousin here that moved in with a situation so she had to come in and she s not elderly but in bad shape. and she got into a situation to come across country and stay at my house. my brother is about to undergo an angiogram and he s most probably going to have to have a ....
As eviction ban stretches on, so does uncertainty and rent debt By Sydney Brownstone and Daniel Gilbert, Sydney Brownstone and Daniel Gilbert, The Seattle Times Published: January 11, 2021, 8:34am Share: If Washington’s extended ban on evictions expires at the end of March, 46-year-old Antonio Salazar could potentially lose his housing. Salazar, a native of Mexico and 20-year resident of Redmond, worked as a chef until a few years ago when he suffered an accident that required spinal surgery. His only source of income had been workers’ compensation, which he said the state terminated a year ago, just before the pandemic set in. ....