President Joe Biden asked landlords to pause evictions for the next 30 days on Monday as the administration scrambles to find a way to implement a new eviction moratorium.
and the White House for the effort’s failure. Bush has slept each night on the Capitol steps since Friday, an effort to bring attention to the millions who will be evicted without protections.
on Sunday. “People are being forcibly removed from their homes RIGHT NOW. There are potentially millions more to come.”that she had a conversation with Vice President Kamala Harris about the matter on Monday. “I needed her to look me in my eyes and I wanted to look in hers when I asked for help to prevent our people from being evicted,” she wrote. “Madam Vice President, let’s work together to get this done. We need a federal eviction moratorium.
The president also called on state and local courts to pause eviction proceedings until tenants and landlords gain access to Emergency Rental Assistance funds allocated by Congress as part of the American Rescue Plan. So far only $3 billion out of $46 billion has been disbursed, so Biden directed federal agencies to find out why funds have not been distributed and to “press the states and localities to make these distributions.
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