Pandemic-era eviction postponements and federal assistance programs have expired, leaving renters vulnerable to the eviction filings that have dramatically increased nationwide. As wages can’t keep up with higher housing prices, landlords make the ultimate decision on whether to evict, oftentimes at a human cost. NBC News’ Valerie Castro reports.
What really hurt me to see (obviously it hurts the actual victims more) was how during Covid there was this what felt like once in a generation opportunity for progressive policies that were necessary during Covid such as rent eviction moratoriums, child support payments and stimulus checks to prove themselves to society and be embraced outside the context of Covid.
Then the rich violently slammed the door shut, and seeing the rent eviction moratorium be let to unceremoniously expire made my heart sink, it felt like the final nail in the coffin of the possibility of a brighter future because of how obviously wrong it was as a choice and how much the narrative of mainstream media was ready to move on as if we always had to move on, we always had to get back to this incredibly unsustainable grind that is quite visibly slowly (and not so slowly) destroying everyone around me including myself (which isn’t casual hyperbole, I say that very seriously).
The system cannot be fixed at this point I don’t think unless the people in power see agreeing to fixes in system (“concessions” from their standpoint) as the less scary alternative to other things. Otherwise Covid proved exhaustively that populist changes that improve everyone’s lives will be forced by any means necessary to be repealed by the ruling class.