Mass Evictions in the US

[duskpire]

Mass evictions are still taking place all around the US especially in Kansas City, Missouri. A lot of people are losing their homes. More will soon follow once Biden takes office.

A nationwide eviction ban was supposed to protect tenants like Tawanda Mormon, who was forced out of her two-bedroom apartment last month in Cleveland.

The 46-year-old, who was hospitalized in August for the coronavirus and can't work due to mental health issues, said she fell behind on her $500-a-month rent because she needed the money to pay for food. When she was evicted in October, Mormon said she was unaware of President Donald Trump’s directive, implemented in September by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, that broadly prevents evictions through the end of 2020.

"It was difficult. I had to leave all my stuff,” said Mormon, who has been staying with friends and relatives since her eviction. “I don’t have no furniture, no nothing.”

With most state and local eviction bans expired, the nationwide directive was seen as the best hope to prevent more than 23 million renters from being evicted amid a stalemate in Congress over tens of billions of dollars in rental assistance. It was also billed as a way to fight the coronavirus, with studies showing evictions can spread the virus and lead to an increase in infections.

The CDC order has averted a wave of evictions, housing advocates said, but tenants are increasingly falling through the cracks.

Article- https://www.kansascity.com/news/article247487940.html

 

[Demon_skeith]

Rough bad times to say the least. Hopefully people affected can bounce back eventually.

 

[duskpire]

Rough bad times to say the least. Hopefully people affected can bounce back eventually.

Some people won't be able to recover from this at all. I've seen it happen before. It's the government's fault.

It's because of the lockdowns. They aren't helping. They're breaking people financially and people ignore the lockdowns and go out and get sick anyway. Masks don't help because of cross contamination. Good luck finding a valid argument to keep wearing them. People wear them and touch them when they're not supposed to.

Just because the government tells a business or a landlord that they have to cover you while they're locked down doesn't mean they will. They'll go through loopholes and other legal hoops to get out from under it. I can understand both sides. Many landlords cant afford to have tenants who don't pay.

It's one big giant wheel with everyone on it and we're all getting screwed over. The lockdown is all one giant big screw up. They were better off just letting the virus burn out.

Meanwhile the landlords that aren't rich and rely on that rent money can't have someone bum sitting there. So they evict the tenant and say they're selling the property. Why keep it if the lockdown is sucking you dry?

I also believe the media should be getting backlash. They're the assholes who has caused chaos all year long and made a mountain out of a mole hill. They made up a bunch of bullshit and everyone believed them.

So when you lock down the economy believing in the delusion that you will prevail in a pandemic. You end up hurting millions of families. The lockdown was the governments piss poor attempt at stopping something they can't control. Meanwhile you have millions of ignorant people blaming Trump when they should have been blaming the media for hiring actors to pretend they're doctors and make up bullshit stories on how COVID-19 is a super virus that kills everyone when that was a lie.

My mother got sick, she lived. She said it wasn't that bad. My step father got it. He got as sick as he does when he gets the flu. My sister got it, same results. I may have had it.

I say with certainty. It's not that bad. We don't need another damn lock down. It's the last thing this country needs. the disease is here. No mask or lockdown is going to keep you from getting it.

If a doctor who was trained for 15 years in the medical field can get it. So can everyone else.