Over 8 million Americans are living under borrowed time, in rent arrears, previously protected from eviction by a CDC edict. The Supreme Court rightly, within a Constitutional frame, ended the CDC-defined and enforced mandate on eviction moritoriums, though the harm it will do to millions is not much mitigated by such ‘comforting’ notions.
The problem itself was created by the mandates that led to the necessity of eviction moritoriums in the first place, the intentional halting of the ability of humans to consensually exchange value with one another. The state put a ban hammmer of all ban hammers on human living, which meant humans couldn’t MAKE a living, let alone have a living, so to speak.
If the state wanted to solve the problem, then they should have paid for the problem, but they didn’t, they burdened one group of people, the landlords, with the task of funding a state assistance program. The program itself still leaves the renter in tremendous debt, and the landlord, the landlord eats the expense of the upkeep of the building, the paying of taxes, none of these expenses change.
And now, even if the ruling was just from a constitutional sense, it sets in motion actions that will produce decidedly unjust results, people who get evicted, landlords that are forced to choose between not evicting people in debt who still can’t pay the rent, and their own means to make a living for their families, children of all of these people caught in the trauma that such things cause, all because, from the start, the state was not willing to pay for the cost it was literally forcing at gun point on all of us, to shut it all down, without also shutting down the bills that keep coming while the incomes no longer flowed.
Millions Could Face Eviction Following Supreme Court Decision
From www.usnews.com
2021-08-31 16:06:00
Excerpt:
The Supreme Court blocked the Biden Administration’s most recent moratorium on evictions in a late night decision on Aug. 26, leaving hundreds of thousands of Americans at risk of losing their homes amid a surge of the deadly delta variant of the coronavirus.
The court’s decision stated that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which originally instituted the eviction moratorium, did not have the authority to extend the suspension of evictions without congressional approval.
Census Bureau survey data shows that more than 8 million people are behind on rent payments. The survey also found that more than 3.5 million people said they were “very” or “somewhat likely” to be evicted in the next two months.
