House fails to extend eviction moratorium ahead of 6-week recess
Source: ABC News
House Democrats' attempt to pass an extension of the eviction moratorium via unanimous consent request failed late Friday ahead of a six-week recess. The moratorium will end Saturday.
"Everybody knew this was happening. We were sounding the alarm about this issue," Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, D-N.Y., told reporters in a gaggle outside Pelosi's office. She was joined by Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., who has been outspoken about the time she spent homeless in pushing for the extension of the moratorium.
"The court order was not yesterday, the court order was not Monday, the court order was a month ago," Ocasio Cortez continued. "We had a financial services hearing about it, members were bringing alarms to the administration about it."
"The fact that the [White House] statement came out just yesterday is unacceptable. It is unacceptable," she said. "I want to make that very clear, because the excuses that we've been hearing about it, I do not accept them."
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I agree with AOC that this is a clusterfuck. In a lot of states if they pass it in two weeks it will be soon enough to prevent evictions, but in many southern states there will be thousands or more homeless in two weeks.
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Good job.
... just saw a report on CNN about this... only a small fraction of the help (meaning billions of dollars) has actually been dispersed! I suspect people in so-called "red states" have received little help. I'd like to know where all the money is going to end up... how can we deal with State Governments that simply will not follow the law? They slow-walk the funds... they set up process barriers and, finally, who gets the money?
... that's terrible! I'm in California and I hear we're doing better. We have state protections, in addition to the Federal help.
... How NY can be in that position is incomprehensible... AOC is a New Yorker... Cuomo and many others are New Yorkers... $1 million out of the $2.6 billion... Why?
... even w/o the pandemic, we have a homeless problem. I'd like to see more housing facilities for the homeless, in general... doesn't have to be Mar-i-la-go, just something humane.
In a new letter to President Joe Biden and CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, progressive members of Congress are calling for the CDC to "leverage every authority available to extend the eviction moratorium" after the House failed to take action Friday to extend the eviction ban set to expire Saturday at midnight.
Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., along with Reps. Cori Bush, D-Mo., Jimmy Gomez, D-Calif., Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., and Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., signed on to the letter, seen first by ABC News, urging the administration, which has said its hands are tied by a June Supreme Court ruling, to act.
"In the midst of the ongoing pandemic and the growing surges of the Delta variant across the nation, the impending eviction crisis is a matter of public health and safety and demands an urgent government response. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention must leverage every authority available to extend the eviction moratorium before it is too late," the letter said.
In June, the Supreme Court voted 5-4 to allow the eviction ban to continue through the end of July but signaled in its ruling that it would block any further extensions unless there was "clear and specific congressional authorization.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/with-hours-until-eviction-ban-expires-lawmakers-lean-on-cdc-to-act/ar-AAMNdCR 