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3.6 million from being evicteded from their homes in the coming months. those steps include calling on states and localities to extend or put eviction moratoriums in place for at least two more months calling on state and local courts to pause proceedings until tenants and landlords can seek access to the emergency rental assistance program. and examining were state and local governments have failed to distribute the rental assistance passed by congress earlier this year. joining to us talk ab...

Giving localities more time to get the $47 billion of rental assistance thats out there into the hands ever renters and giving the opportunities for homeowners to get relief as well. >> secretary castro, congressman castro, thank you both so much for being here. next, the delta spike and backlash to mandates. it is making health care harder. two doctors are here to just lay it all out. and new details about trumps final days in the white house and the growing mountain of cash that could help h...

Im not the only one. >> and many of these people have nowhere to go. they have lost their jobs because of the pandemic. and now you add the delta variant. so the big question is, where are these people going to go? phil? >> camilla, you made a great point. not only can states and localities impose their own moratoriums. theres also tens of billions of dollars those localities could disburse. its the people that matter the most. great report. coming up -- the urgent plea from people who put off...

Do think theres a lot of importance in his point that there is money out there to deal with this and some states and localities are doing a really good job of getting that money out to renters and landlords in some states are not you mentioned earlier new york but also florida, south carolina, arkansas have not been distributing at the same rate as some of the better ones, there is a mechanism in place and this is the white house argument there is a mechanism in place to deal with the people in ...

Going to be able to get off this money without causing an uproar for the administration. >> were not going to rest until that money gets out and flown effectively for states and localities need to take those steps and will do what we can at the federal level to support them, i would underscore this is really a win-win a lot of the landlords are mom-and-pop landlords, they dont benefit if they have to evict tenants and the individuals that are affected between having to pay rent or put food on th...

Steps to extend the moratorium for properties that have the government-backed guarantee hud, va, usda those are the steps that we can take but right now the opportunity and the necessity to get that money that is out there that congress passed and we got to the states and localities and get them into the hands of the landlords and landlord should seek that money, rather to evict it in their interest as well. dana: this is big news over the week, the senate is poised to pass a bipartisan effort s...

Renters and thats happening at the same time that for renters, 80% of them who owe back rent are in areas where the coronavirus is surging. you add all of that up and its a perfect storm of bad news for our country, and really, it didnt have to happen. we didnt have to get to this point. there was a ball that was dropped here. the biden administration could have extendeded cdc moratorium. the supreme court did look disapprovingly at the cdc moratorium a few weeks ago ask it didnt strike it down ...

To protect people from being kicked out of their homes when they couldnt work in the government shut the economy down now that has expired as of last night at the mess been coming for months why wait until the last minute to address it i think as i saw brought up on thursday by the speaker and now its expired with the president like to see the senate act on this and expand the moratorium and extended going forward. >> the real issue how to get money out to renters for most of their own behind on...

Vaccinated. joining us now is dr. robert peltier, the chief medical officer atincentive. hes also a tropical medicine specialist. im fascinated by this. we saw this idea kind of glommed on to by the president this past week saying he wants $100 per shot to be something states and localities do. where did this come from and from your assessment, did it work? >> yeah, we had a local businessman here, mr. tom endman who approached our ceo michelle sutton just a couple of weeks ago and said, you kno...

Move the money to the renters and landlords immediately. the good news we know this can work, in june triple the amount of resources that there was in may, and places like louisville and harris county texas theyre getting money out effectively to help renters and if the federal government level we will do what we can now that the money is with the state and locals we will provide technical assistance and we can extend eviction moratorium for properties that are backed by government guarantees th...