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The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has not extended the eviction protection order for tenants, so as of this Saturday 31 July, thousands of Americans may be left unprotected and be left to their own devices despite the fact that the Covid pandemic – 19 is still present and wreaking havoc.
T he CDC had extended the eviction moratorium due to to the pandemic and its economic impact , as well as to the health of Americans thinking that at this time millions of people could already have a job and vaccination at the national level it will advance more solidly. But the facts do not say otherwise.
The United States faces a wave of Covid cases – 19, a situation that has caused various organizations to set off the alarms, as there may be a cascade of evictions, which would have an impact on those affected being vulnerable to the new Delta variant of the virus that has slowly spread throughout the country .
This has been supported by an analysis that shows that millions of people are at constant risk because they live in points where the Delta variant is increasing rapidly. For this reason, the president of the National Low Income Housing Coalition, Diane Yentel urged Congress to extend the moratorium.
Yentel stated that “the Delta variant that has arisen due to the low vaccination rates in communities with high eviction requests and the slow distribution of rental assistance,” the activist argued that this situation makes an extension of the mandate should be weighed. Delta is making local authorities nervous, as well as many citizens.
Paul Williams, a housing policy researcher and fellow at the Jain Family Institute, told CBS that if the moratorium is not extended, “leaving people on the streets probably won’t have a good effect on housing rates. transmission of the coronavirus in communities where this phenomenon occurs in a generalized way. ”
According to experts, one of the reasons why the virus could be contained in some places had to do with Americans had a place to shelter , but three days After the moratorium expires, the situation may be more complicated than you think. For this reason, activists have not only raised their voices, so have some politicians.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democratic legislator urged form public to President Joe Biden to give the executive order to prevent mass evictions from taking place in a period of two months, for which the representative stated that we must “protect the vulnerable and do everything in our power to avoid a crisis. ”
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