During the COVID-19 outbreak, Florida's landlord-friendly laws, lack of affordable homes, rising rents and stagnant wages left thousands of suddenly jobless renters exposed. In Central Florida, many low-wage workers who power the region’s tourism economy were particularly vulnerable.
During the COVID-19 outbreak, Florida's landlord-friendly laws, lack of affordable homes, rising rents and stagnant wages left thousands of suddenly jobless renters exposed. In Central Florida, many low-wage workers who power the region’s tourism economy were particularly vulnerable.
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Amethyst has been on her own since her mother kicked her out of her house at the age of 15. We’re not using her last name to protect her privacy. After graduating high school in 2019, she enrolled in Lane Community College in Eugene to study paramedicine.
Throughout high school and during part of her time in college she experienced housing and food insecurity.
“One, when you re having to pay for college by yourself, you re gonna lose a lot of money,” said Amethyst. “And then you have to pay for your housing, and then you have to pay for your food and you re not able to make a livable wage, because you know, you re still trying to pursue your education. Like it seems impossible.”
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A federal district court judge on May 4 overturned the Centers for Disease Control’s moratorium on evictions, scheduled to be in effect until June 30, 2021. This decision overturning the order appears overreaching and has been stayed, at least temporarily, based on an appeal by the U.S. Department of Justice.
However, coming on the heels of successful challenges to the eviction moratorium in other jurisdictions, it is indicative of how landlords are licking at their chops to begin throwing millions of renters out onto the streets as soon as possible. These imminent evictions will exacerbate a disaster that was already in the makings before the COVID pandemic struck.