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."
Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/house-fails-to-extend-eviction-moratorium-ahead-of-6-week-recess/ar-AAMLwIr?ocid=entnewsntp
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.
OneCrazyDiamond
(2,043 posts)Good job.
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)Not until you protect Americans from mass evacuations.
progree
(11,449 posts)About 17 days ago, Florida's daily new cases per 100,000 (7 day moving average) was 22, the same as the U.S. is now.
We've all seen the daily (at least) LBN tick-tock on Florida's Covid cases, as if it is some uniquely horrible state. Well the U.S. overall average now is about where Florida was 17 days ago, and both have their daily cases growing by about the same rate: Florida: +153% and U.S. +151% over the past 14 days (the average of the 7 days ending July 29 compared to the average of the 7 days ending July 15).
A 153% increase is a 2.53 fold increase; a 151% increase is a 2.51 fold increase.
Anyway, wasn't the idea of the original eviction moratoriums that we didn't want to have people scurrying around looking for housing or homeless in the middle of a pandemic? Is not where Florida is now (66 daily new cases per 100,000, and growing at a rate of 6.85%/day which is a doubling time of 10 1/2 days) a full-scale pandemic? At the current U.S. new Covid growth rate, won't the U.S. average be there in about 17 days?
U.S.: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html
Florida: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/florida-covid-cases.html
Florida is about 4 days away from it's all time peak daily new cases 7 day moving average set on January 8 (but since they report cases only weekly, their 7 day averages progress in stair-step fashion).
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The top 15 states per 100,000 population in daily new cases (7 day moving averages):
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=2778047
Louisiana is #1 in this metric, by the way, Florida is #2. And Louisiana's cases are growing much faster.
totodeinhere
(13,214 posts)rates should do better.
progree
(11,449 posts)the worst states, and is quite unrepresentative of say the best half of states.
That said, a number of bluish states have 14 day increases of 200% (that's a tripling) or above: Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Maryland.
And these have increases between 150% and 200% (2 1/2 fold to 3 fold increases): Michigan, New York, Minnesota, Hawaii, Illinois, New Hampshire.
So while they are still relatively low in daily new cases per capita, their case counts are growing at alarming rates.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html
sorted by the "14 day change" column
The percent fully vaccinated is in the rightmost column. Many of the above-listed states have fully vaccinated rates of above 60%.
George II
(67,782 posts)...she do anything about getting a bill introduced and passed instead of claiming a White House statement is "unacceptable"?
If she doesn't accept what she calls "excuses" (which they're not) she can do something about it.
progree
(11,449 posts)"Really, we only learned about this yesterday. Not really enough time to socialize it within our caucus to build ... the consensus necessary," Pelosi said. "We've had beautiful conversations with our members ... when it comes, though, to the technicalities of legislation, we just need more time."
MichMan
(12,576 posts)It never came up in any "beautiful conversations " ?
Historic NY
(37,711 posts)they knew Biden couldn't extend it w/o a new bill. If They don't get on the ball in unison, were going to be in trouble.
Mike Nelson
(10,209 posts)... 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?
MichMan
(12,576 posts)Mike Nelson
(10,209 posts)... 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.
Chainfire
(17,757 posts)You know that the vultures have all of the paperwork ready and waiting. It will be a painful August for a lot of people.
Polybius
(16,842 posts)Not this time though. As noted above, here's what Pelosi said yesterday:
"Really, we only learned about this yesterday. Not really enough time to socialize it within our caucus to build ... the consensus necessary," Pelosi said. "We've had beautiful conversations with our members ... when it comes, though, to the technicalities of legislation, we just need more time."
leadership dropped this issue completely.
ripcord
(5,553 posts)They didn't need a notice from Biden that he couldn't do what the Supreme Court told him he couldn't do. I noticed Congress didn't cancel their recess to deal with this issue and I certainly blame them for that.
George II
(67,782 posts)....legislation are blaming the only person who can't. Biden can sign passed legislation but Representatives and Senators have to send it to him.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(112,601 posts)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