EDIT: I forgot the eviction moratorium was done at the national level for low income housing and that it was the Supreme Court actually ruled against it, effectively ending it. Anyway yeah, get ready for stuff to be so horrendous so quickly that it’s easy to forget because there’s just such a fucking flood of it. I reiterate my original point that when the moratorium was over the right wing judges, prosecutors, and cops were so excited to get back to kicking people into the streets.
https://nlihc.org/coronavirus-and-housing-homelessness/national-eviction-moratorium
The Supreme Court ruled on August 26 to end the temporary stay on a lower court ruling seeking to overturn the federal eviction moratorium issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In doing so, the Supreme Court’s ruling invalidates the federal eviction moratorium, eliminating vital eviction protections that have kept millions of households – predominantly people of color – stably housed.
The federal eviction moratorium was a lifeline for millions of families, the last remaining federal protection keeping many safely and stably housed during the pandemic. The tragic, consequential, and entirely avoidable outcome of this ruling could be millions of people losing their homes this fall and winter, just as the delta variant ravages communities and lives.
EDIT II: I originaly jumped in just to say it since people seemed incredulous already, but there’s a couple quotes from the article that directly reference the end of the eviction moratorium as a reason for increased homelessness.
Since the sunsetting of these resources and the ending of the eviction moratorium, our CoC has seen a large influx of new families and individuals seeking emergency shelter assistance.
The rise in unsheltered numbers can be attributed to several pivotal developments. The end of the eviction moratorium played a significant role, as many individuals who had been protected under pandemic-era policies suddenly faced eviction proceedings. With the legal system resuming operations, those who were delayed in court processes found themselves without housing. Economic pressures have also escalated the situation, particularly the unprecedented spikes in rental prices. . . . This surge in housing costs has pushed many out of affordability.
But for the other New York CoCs mentioned in the report, the increase in homelessness wasn’t due to immigration, but to “increased evictions as cities worked through backlogs in evictions that built up during the eviction moratorium, lack of affordable housing, and increased rents . . . as well as loss of rapid re-housing supported by ESG-CV and other COVID-related funding.” (ESG-CV refers to Emergency Solutions Grant–COVID-19, a $4 billion homeless prevention and response program passed as part of the CARES Act of 2020.)
original comment:
People might forget but a lot of places instituted controls to prevent people from being evicted during these time periods, and then when the “pandemic was over” those programs were quickly shuttered and it left a lot of people now stuck thousands of dollars in debt with no way to pay and on their way to eviction.
If I recall correctly pretty much all the west coast states did this.
So it wasn’t even just assistance but the fact that certain laws were put in place to actually prevent people from slipping into homelessness during this period. Obviously once that is scrapped and people who got assistance but still fell behind aren’t in a position to pay up, you’re gonna have evictions.
And oh man, some Republicans in those areas had a real hardon for those evictions after being blocked from them for so long. Certain Sheriffs and judges were practically salivating at the idea.
I can’t speak for anyone else, but my pandemic assistance was $1,200, or 2/3rds of one month of rent at the time. My wife got $1,200 too… so 1 and 1/3rd’s month of rent combined.
I don’t see how ending that contributes to homelessness 4 years later.
When did the last batch of checks go out? March, 2021?
"Round 1, March 2020: $1,200 per income tax filer, $500 per child (CARES Act)
Round 2, December 2020: $600 per income tax filer, $600 per child (Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021)
Round 3, March 2021: $1,400 per income tax filer, $1,400 per child (American Rescue Plan Act)"
I was laid off just before the pandemic and there was a big boost in unemployment benefits which eventually got taken away from people. I imagine that’s part of it.
People who were really struggling got an eviction moratorium.
I doubt the stimulus checks are the only thing included in the pandemic assistance category.
HUD attributes this to many factors, including: a lack of affordable housing, inflation, stagnating wages, systemic racism, public health crises, natural disasters, immigration, and the end of pandemic welfare programs. But the report makes clear that ending pandemic welfareduring an inflationary bout and affordable housing crisis was a particularly devastating combination.
I lost my job cooking during covid.
State unemployment was boosted for covid.
I assume this fits in this catagory.
I made the most $$/week during covid, then the entire rest of my 23 working years.
Was basically 2x my normal pay rate as a Line Cook.
This was after my brother and father died and I realized everything’s a cruel joke 🙃.
motion’s at current reality.
https://www.lawdistrict.com/articles/eviction-moratoriums-by-state
“This last federal ban on evictions ended on October 3, 2021.”
So, again, they’re talking about a surge in homelessness 2 years later… I’m still not seeing how it’s connected to the covid stuff.
The moratorium expiring in 2021 wasn’t helping people in 2022 or 2023.
The rise described in the article starts in 2022. I wouldn’t call that two years later than October 2021.
Especially because eviction courts take time. It’s actually not a very fast process.
We also got the child tax credit that was taken away
