CRISIS/JOE BIDEN: “Across the country, approximately 14 million Americans have fallen behind on rent and many may soon be at risk of eviction. We need to act now. That’s why next week, I’ll extend nationwide restrictions on evictions and foreclosures.“ ––Joe Biden, Twitter.com, January 16, 2021 3:42 pm […]
Tag: evictions
8/12/2020
CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/DEMS/HOUSING: “I want to make it unmistakably clear that I’m protecting people from evictions. They didn’t want to do that. The Democrats didn’t want to do a protection from evictions — people getting evicted because of the coronavirus or the ‘China virus,’ whatever you want to call it. We have 20 — now we’re up […]
8/10/2020
EXECUTIVE ORDERS/HOUSING: “While Trump has publicly pushed for Congress to extend the eviction ban put in place by the CARES Act, his housing order does not actually issue an eviction moratorium. Rather, it instructs the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to ‘consider’ whether temporarily banning residential […]
8/8/2020
COVID-19/EXECUTIVE ORDERS/HOUSING: “The Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Director of CDC shall consider whether any measures temporarily halting residential evictions of any tenants for failure to pay rent are reasonably necessary to prevent the further spread of COVID-19 from one State or possession into any other State or possession… The Secretary of […]
8/5/2020
CORONAVIRUS/HOUSING: “[M]y administration’s exploring executive actions to provide protections against eviction. Eviction is a big problem, very unfair to a lot of people. It wasn’t their fault that this virus came from a far away land. As well as additional relief to those who are unemployed as a result of the [coronavirus].” -Donald Trump as […]
8/4/2020
COVID-19/HOUSING: “We want to take care of the eviction problem. People are being evicted very unfairly. It’s not their fault. It’s China’s fault; it’s not their fault. And people are being evicted, and we can do that with an executive order. So if we don’t get — and we want to do it relatively quickly. […]
8/3/2020
HOUSING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “If you look at some of the states, I won’t insult anybody by naming those states, but you know what they are. They want bailout money. They’re not interested in the people. They’re not interested in unemployment. They’re not interested in evictions, which is a big deal. The evictions, they want to […]
8/1/2020
CONGRESS/HOUSING/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “To prevent a catastrophic rise in evictions and homelessness, President Trump must work with Congress to act swiftly and enact a broad emergency housing support program for renters, just as we would in the aftermath of a natural disaster. Such a step would get help out quickly and at scale so […]