More than 40 million people in this country are facing eviction when the CDC moratorium expires at the end of this month. That’s roughly 12% of the entire population. In winter. In a pandemic.

That does not include the defaults and foreclosures on homes.

I "sat in a meeting" today about the re-opening of our eviction and foreclosure courts. Talking about details of court operations, intended to protect the rights of people defending eviction and foreclosure actions. That's well and good. We need to fix court operations to secure those rights.

But right now, we need to forbid eviction and foreclosure. Because our government did not gve people money, did not give restaurants & bars & local shops money to pay employees who could not safely work at businesees people could not safely patronize. Because our government did not cancel rent, cancel mortgages, people will be homeless, in winter, in a pandemic. 

This is the most immoral of nations.

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12/9 '20