Republicans Are About To Let MILLIONS Of People Lose Their Homes

On Friday, the eviction moratorium that had been in place for months expired, and Senate Republicans refused to take action to save it. As a result, the millions of renter households that were unable to pay rent for the past few months now find themselves in dire straits as landlords are now free to start evicting people. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains the risk and why it got so bad.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

This past Friday, Republicans in the Senate allowed the eviction moratorium to expire. Now, this was in a moratorium on evictions, obviously that have been put in place, uh, towards the early days of the pandemic. It was not one of the immediate, uh, pieces of relief that came out, but it came out shortly after and it has helped millions of people who have lost their jobs, lost their incomes. It has helped them to stay in their homes. As recent reports have shown us through, uh, from may, June and July, nearly a third of Americans could not make their rent or mortgage payments. But now that this eviction moratorium has officially expired. And because Republicans in the Senate are showing absolutely no signs of putting it back into the current relief package that they're working on, millions of people are suddenly at risk of losing their homes. And FYI saying millions of people are at risk is not an overstatement. According to see NBC, not exactly a, a left wing website, uh, they've put together a health, a little more Map... Here in this map,

Shows every individual state and the percentage of renting households in that state that essentially could be evicted today for missing, right?

And if not today, than in the very near future, because they're not going to be able to pay their rent, the lowest percentage out of any of the 50 States that make up this country, the lowest percentage is 22% of renter households being evicted. That's the lowest, that's literally the best. Take a look at some of the big ones here. Uh, Louisiana, Mississippi, 50 and 55% respectively solid red States, Florida swing state 51% at risk of eviction, Texas 48% at risk of eviction, Georgia 46% at risk, um, New York, 46% at risk California, 37, Wisconsin, 34, uh, Minnesota, 40% Iowa, 48% Ohio, 41%. The, the, the list goes on. There is a link to this, by the way, uh, in the description of this video, this chart is incredibly important. Right now, this chart is something that everybody in this country needs to see to understand how bad this problem really is and how much good that eviction moratorium did.

And now it's gone. Maybe it'll come back, but here's the other kicker too, right? We have not had a stimulus checks from the federal government since April, April was when people all over the country got April. Now, corporations still been lining up for handouts, lining up for bailouts and lining up for those small business loans. Even though they're not a small business. In fact that one still has money in it, because all the pigs at that trough have taken all they want and they can't fit anymore. In now, I'm not talking about legit, small businesses. Y'all do whatever you need to do. I'm talking about the big major corporations that created these little shell companies real quick saying, Oh, I only have three employees. I need $8 million from your fund. Yeah, those folks can go straight to hell. That's what they can do,

But We haven't had any help. We haven't had any aid we did for those who were unemployed, have the extra $600 per week and unemployment benefits. But along with the moratorium on evictions that also expired on Friday and Republicans are saying, now, we're not going to give you your 600 back. We might give you 200 a week extra, but guess what folks that is still not enough to solve the renting crisis in this country, because that's what this is.