{"id":263718,"date":"2020-08-04T01:27:57","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T05:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=263718"},"modified":"2020-11-22T10:18:22","modified_gmt":"2020-11-22T15:18:22","slug":"bring-on-the-eviction-tidal-wave-40-percent-of-us-renters-face-homelessness-as-landlords-tenants-are-encouraged-to-go-to-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/bring-on-the-eviction-tidal-wave-40-percent-of-us-renters-face-homelessness-as-landlords-tenants-are-encouraged-to-go-to-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Bring on the \u2018eviction tidal wave\u2019: 40 percent of US renters face homelessness as landlords and tenants are encouraged to go to war"},"content":{"rendered":"
RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n
The USA will become a country of homeless people.<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

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Millions of Americans face homelessness with the expiration of the federal Covid-19 eviction ban and unemployment benefits. But instead of encouraging landlord-tenant cooperation, the media are hyping stories of violence and fear.
\nThe economic suffering American families have already faced at the hands of incompetent government responses to the Covid-19 pandemic pales in comparison to the looming \u201ctidal wave of evictions\u201d poised to soak the nation after a federal moratorium expired last month.<\/p>\n

Families who thought \u201cmoratorium\u201d meant they didn\u2019t have to pay those three months\u2019 rent are getting a rude awakening, learning they\u2019re on the hook for the entire sum just as the $600 weekly unemployment payments many received after virus-related lay-offs have also dried up. A financial bottomless pit is about to swallow millions.<\/p>\n

Those hoping to remain sheltered could negotiate with their landlord, given that small landowners – those with just a few buildings – are likely to be just as worried about the end of the moratorium as their tenants.<\/p>\n

A few missed rent payments translate to building owners missing their mortgage payments and the bank – or some rapacious private equity firm – taking away their property. They\u2019re likely to be eager to make a deal to get some payment rather than evict a tenant and get nothing at all.<\/p>\n

But the media establishment would apparently rather see these two groups at each other\u2019s throats \u2013 literally \u2013 than working together. Last week, a Connecticut man supposedly used a samurai sword to decapitate his landlord after a rent dispute, a somewhat dodgy story which nevertheless received extensive media coverage \u2013 and no doubt succeeded in striking fear into the hearts of building owners already jittery about their futures in post-pandemic America.<\/p>\n

The newly-headless landlord, retired insurance exec and semi-famous bridge player Victor King, supposedly ran to Hartford police the day before his death to report tenant Jerry David Thompson had waved the sword at him threateningly when he tried to collect rent.<\/p>\n

The next day, King was found decapitated in his home, where investigators went just hours after the man\u2019s friends said they couldn\u2019t reach him \u2013 although cops typically tell worried friends to wait as long as 24 hours before filing missing person reports if the missing individual is an adult.<\/p>\n

Thompson, identified as a suspect by these same watchful friends, was quickly arrested \u2013 only to refuse to say anything to investigators, supposedly claiming he was a \u201csovereign citizen\u201d and not subject to US law.<\/p>\n

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\nEstablishment media have largely framed tenants\u2019 options as binary: \u201crent strike\u201d or bust. There\u2019s no allowance for a building owner who\u2019d rather get a few hundred dollars from tenants every month than throw them out into the street, allowing him to pay his mortgage and keep his building. Stories like the sword-wielding tenant ensure this hostility runs both ways \u2013 tenants are framed as deadbeats, scammers and, now, violent criminals.<\/p>\n

With a continuation of either the moratorium or unemployment benefits snarled in Congress for the foreseeable future, the only legal barrier left to stop as many as 40 percent of US renters from being turned out into the streets is a 30-day waiting period mandated by the original CARES Act coronavirus bailout.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.rt.com\/op-ed\/496987-eviction-tsunami-politicizes-pandemic-suffering\/?fbclid=IwAR2GAc2zm68GR-Hiixt9c8cZDECG07Xmj70GgipOBHlUqk-TyI0gMLrVpXc<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n