The federal eviction moratorium expires in January. It could leave 40 million Americans homeless. Marc Ramirez, Sarah Taddeo and Tiffany Cusaac-Smith, USA TODAY
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Rochester, N.Y. It’s safe to say that Shayla Black’s life is not what she imagined when she left her job in the magazine industry in January, feeling like she needed a change.
Before long, her quest for new opportunities was upended by massive job losses driven by the COVID-19 crisis. As Black’s finances started to dwindle and the rent continued to accrue at her second-story Harlem apartment, the 28-year-old found herself having to make some difficult choices.
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For months, the warning was clear from economists, housing advocates and public health experts: Without more help from Congress, millions of Americans could be evicted, in the dead of winter, in the middle of a raging pandemic. I can t construct a darker scenario, Moody s Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi told NPR in November. It s absolutely critical that lawmakers step up.
Now lawmakers finally have. So long as it can get past some last-minute opposition from President Trump, the compromise rescue bill extends a federal eviction moratorium, sets aside $25 billion for rental assistance and extends unemployment benefits that were about to expire for 12 million people.
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A view of tents at a homeless encampment in Phoenix, Arizona, U.S., December 18, 2020. Picture taken December 18, 2020. REUTERS/Michelle Conlin
PHOENIX, Ariz. (Reuters) – Nadeen Bender stood outside her home, a tattered two-man tent, surrounded by the re-purposed Amazon Prime boxes she uses to store her life’s belongings. One by one, she checked the cartons to make sure nothing had been stolen in the night.
When asked about her Christmas plans, the rail-thin 43-year-old said through a face mask, “to try to avoid it.” Then she burst into tears.
The tent city that has served as Bender’s neighborhood for the past seven months is in the middle of downtown Phoenix, just down the road from luxury high-rise apartments and expensive restaurants.
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►The U.S. military is again tracking Santa Claus, although with some modifications because of the pandemic. The North American Aerospace Defense Command s Santa tracking operations center usually has around 1,500 volunteers fielding calls from around the world, but this year they have scaled back. This year, Santa is wearing a mask, according to the tracker.
►Republicans blocked an effort Thursday to increase direct payments to Americans from $600 to $2,000 in the latest stimulus package. Democrats said they would try to push the increase through after President Donald Trump said this week he wanted bigger direct checks sent out.