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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 ....
Bypass and a surgery. and my mother is 84 years old, she s lost my grandfather and my brother within a month of each other. and it has been unbelievable what we re encountering here in nevada. i could only imagine. sheamus, help us quantify how many people in the country remain in angela s position or something similar. because the country has seen the number of at-risk families come down but where does it stand today. how many still at risk? well you talked about the 7 million number. so there are certainly millions of people across the country that are behind on their rent. so with the eviction moratorium expiring on saturday, what we have is a patch work across country. because there are some states like california, and new york and illinois that still have their own vocal protections and a number of other states that have processes that are slowing down evictions. but for other people what they re facing is that the rental assistance programs in ....
Declared i wasn t covid impacted. sheamus, how many folks are in that category? right? who have a claim or i m curious, i ve heard different estimates from one in six or rather five sixth of the money hasn t been spent or as much as to maybe perhaps half. but still there is a lot of money out there not getting to the right people. why is that? it is a real challenge. these programs weren t created before. so from governments to create massive rental assistance programs is a real challenge. i don t want to underplay that at all. but in some states like texas that have stood up programs that have gotten money out there very quickly, they re looking at 40% of the first round of money that they ve gotten out. and other states are in the single-digits. programs that haven t even started giving out money. and so, you know, at this point there are some places that just need to get it together and ....