The Third Crisis of 2020 Is Almost Here
A monstrous wave of evictions and slashed unemployment benefits threaten to put millions of Americans on the street — and Republicans don’t seem to care
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Few things can terrify a person who’s struggling more than the first of the month. Some bills can be negotiated with, but when someone falls short on their rent or mortgage, the consequences are far more dire. How can they not be when what’s at risk isn’t cable TV, but having a place to lay your head?
No one deserves to worry about joining the already too high homeless population in America. But as exhausted as many of us might understandably be given the number of crises currently wreaking havoc nationwide, we’re currently on the verge of yet another. And it’s less than two weeks away.
When the coronavirus pandemic hit the U.S. in March and shutdowns began, the ensuing wave of economic woes brought record unemployment — but it didn’t bring an end to landlords demanding rent on April 1. In response, numerous states and cities across the country implemented temporary eviction moratoriums to prevent people from losing their rental homes or…
