The government’s pandemic-related ban on residential evictions expired at Midnight on Saturday, July 31st, as a result putting millions of Americans at risk of eviction.
The Biden administration made a half attempt to salvage this moratorium and extend it in light of the recent surge in Delta variant cases.
There are more than 15 million people in 6.5 million households across America that are currently behind on rental payments, collectively owing more than $20 billion to landlords.
The eviction Moratorium was put into place last March, as a way to prevent homelessness during the pandemic.
The ban was implemented by the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) last September 2020 and has been extended multiple times. Against the ruling of the Supreme Court, the Biden Administration has announced that they would be extending the CDC’s eviction moratorium until October.
While this Moratorium was meant to provide some financial relief to renters, it hit landlords hard. They struggled to keep up with mortgages, tax, and insurance payments on their rental properties without the rental income.
The dems are using the moratorium as a way to push progressive politics, by calling them public health policies.
Congress might’ve been unable to pass a federal eviction moratorium, but they were able to pressure Biden into extending the CDC’s moratorium via executive action.
Framed as a welfare measure that was meant to help millions of renters who faced evictions in the face of COVID, it became a tool for legislative advantage.
The difference here is that the current justifications for extending the CDC moratorium are the complete opposite rationale from what the CDC had presented when they first implemented these “emergency measures”
Even after the Supreme Court’s ruling that the moratorium could only be extended through new legislation the Biden administration still went against them, blaming the courts themselves in an attempt to ease political pressure.
Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville has condemned the extension of the eviction moratorium, he recently joked in an interview “let’s break the law a couple more months… You know, the Supreme Court already ruled on this… that you can’t do this. You can’t extend it, but they did it anyway.”
For the housing providers, eviction is the last thing they want to do, but without the rental income, paying bills is increasingly difficult.
NAR president Charlie Oppler – a broker-owner from New Jersey – wrote in a statement that “ We should direct our energy towards the swift implementation of rental assistance, we do not need more uncertainty for tenants or housing providers.”
This moratorium was barely supported as a safety measure when first implemented, but was more clearly considered a health measure during the height of the pandemic.
All along it’s been a political tool for the far left to disguise their public health agenda as a public health and safety measure… And now that the Supreme Court has ruled against the extension of this Moratorium, the dems are looking for any way to break the rules to suit their needs.
While tenants and renters suffer the financial strains of the pandemic, it’s clear that the Biden administration only cares about furthering their own progressive politics.
