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Joe Biden - "Time to put Trump in the bullseye."
Eviction moratoriums are a terrible idea. 99% of these people have the money to pay the rent. They are figuring their past due rent will be cancelled.
https://www.npr.org/2021/04/07/9848...iction-floodgates-we-just-stepped-off-a-cliff
april 7 2021 The Texas state court system is signaling that it will no longer enforce a federal order aimed at stopping evictions during the coronavirus pandemic. That could clear the way for landlords to push ahead with tens of thousands of eviction cases that have been on hold.
The timing could be particularly painful for many families, coming after Congress has approved billions of dollars to help people pay the rent they owe to avoid eviction, but before the vast majority of renters have been able to receive any of that money.
Legal aid attorneys are raising the alarm that the state is about to allow a wave of people to be put out of their homes, with no place to go.
"We've had a failure of leadership that's going to result in tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of Texans becoming homeless in relatively short order," says Mark Melton, who heads up a pro bono team of 175 volunteer lawyers in Dallas.