The Villa Maria affordable housing building in Miami Beach
Nonprofits and city planners are working to create more affordable housing, but they’re up against legislation that rewards rampant development.
This story and the accompanying audio segments were produced through a collaboration involving journalists from Southerly, Climate Central and WLRN.
A little over four feet of elevation is all that’s standing between some waterfront neighborhoods winding through Miami Beach and the unrelenting force of the Atlantic Ocean. At Eighth and Washington, where Gregario Lopez, 81, lives in a Section 8 apartment, it’s even less. Lopez has been without regular income since 2010, when a bad fall left him injured and unable to work.
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In public housing, a small debt can get poor tenants evicted
by Bryan Gallion, Maya Pottiger, Kara Newhouse, Ryan Little, Trisha Ahmed, Jenna Pierson, Anastazja Kolodziej And Allison Mollenkamp / The Howard Center For Investigative Journalism, University Of Maryland, The Associated Press
Posted Dec 18, 2020 9:02 am EDT
Last Updated Dec 18, 2020 at 9:14 am EDT
Kandise Norris, shown here with her three children in a Nov. 7 photo outside their home in Somerset County, Maryland, says she has been rebuilding her life since getting treatment for drug addiction in April 2019. The Housing Authority of Crisfield, Maryland, which owns her house, has filed three eviction cases against the 30-year-old since September. (Nick McMillan/Howard Center for Investigative Journalism via AP)
Housing groups warn of catastrophic wave of evictions unless Congress extends federal ban By Irina Ivanova Federal eviction ban set to expire Dec. 31
As congressional negotiators try to thrash out a second coronavirus relief bill, December 31 looms as an ominous deadline. It s the last day a federal order against evictions will protect renters who ve fallen behind on their payments. Experts warn that letting the ban expire would be catastrophic both for people at risk of losing their home and for the war against COVID-19.
A number of state and federal eviction limits implemented over the summer have largely expired, Diane Yentel, president of the National Low-Income Housing Coalition, told CBSN. And if a broader order from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were to expire at the end of the year, it could leave millions of renters literally out in the cold.