30% of Americans missed their housing payments in June. (via CNBCMakeIt)
"In the current climate, with unemployment at record levels and with many unable to pay rent for Covid-related reasons, neither housing court judges nor our lawyers will be able to resolve many of these disputes, resulting in evictions, displacement, homelessness, senseless exposure to infection and more difficulty in containing Covid-19," writes The Right to Counsel NYC Coalition inTo prevent a homelessness crisis, governors could extend, or put into place for the first time,,...
On the federal level, the House's Emergency Rental Assistance and Rental Market Stabilization Act would allocate $100 billion for emergency rental assistance, which would help tenants around the country pay their rent and utility bills. The, which was passed by the House in May but has so far stalled in the Senate, includes an extension of the nationwide moratorium on eviction filings, hearings and executions for 12 months.
These are needed responses to a coming crisis, Solomon Greene, a senior fellow in housing policy at the Urban Institute, previously told"Housing instability has huge health consequences even when we're not facing a pandemic," says Greene. "Exposure risk is so much more amplified and worsened when you can't shelter in place because you don't have a place to shelter."
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