By AMY BETH HANSONJuly 15, 2021 GMT
FILE - In this Oct. 14, 2020, file photo, housing activists erect a sign in Swampscott, Mass. A federal freeze on most evictions is set to expire soon. The moratorium, put in place by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in September, was the only tool keeping millions of tenants in their homes. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)
FILE - In this Oct. 14, 2020, file photo, housing activists erect a sign in Swampscott, Mass. A federal freeze on most evictions is set to expire soon. The moratorium, put in place by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in September, was the only tool keeping millions of tenants in their homes. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)
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The Gavin Newsom recall may have picked up steam as a referendum on the governor’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, but now homelessness is also taking center stage.
Businessman John Cox perhaps best known as the guy with the bear has been hauling an eight-foot ball of garbage around California to symbolize “the trash that’s left behind” by people experiencing homelessness and the state’s response to them.
Kevin Faulconer, former mayor of San Diego, named homelessness as his number one campaign issue and put out several ads showing people camped in cars and tents in “Newsom’s California.”
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Housing activists erect a sign in Swampscott, Mass. A federal freeze on most evictions is set to expire soon. The moratorium, put in place by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in September, was the only tool keeping millions of tenants in their homes.
A federal freeze on most evictions that was enacted last year is scheduled to expire July 31, after the Biden administration extended the date by a month. The moratorium, put in place by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in September, has been the only tool keeping millions of tenants in their homes. Many of them lost jobs during the coronavirus pandemic and have fallen months behind on their rent.
Jul 15, 2021 / 09:17 AM EDT
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH)–Affordable housing is beyond reach for a growing number of Ohioans, according to a new report that examines the problem’s severity in Columbus and across the Buckeye State.
The annual “Out of Reach” report, released Wednesday by the National Low Income Housing Coalition, tracks how much money a person would have to earn to afford an apartment or other rental at Fair Market Rent in their community.
The report defines “affordable” as 30% or less of a person’s income.
A person in Ohio needs to make $16.64 per hour, according to this year’s report, to afford a two-bedroom home at the Fair Market Rent of $865 per month. That’s up from $15.99-an-hour in 2020.
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