Biden s $1.9 trillion stimulus package, The American Rescue Plan, includes many housing-related policies: $30 billion in rental and utility assistance, $5 billion to help prevent outbreaks among the homeless, and an even longer extension of the national eviction moratorium through September efforts that would make a big difference in struggling communities, according to housing experts. All of the things that are in the bill are great. We need them, we want them, said Sarah Saadian, vice president of public policy at the National Low Income Housing Coalition.
Housing advocates have been pushing for rental and housing assistance for months as the country grapples with the coronavirus-caused housing crisis.
Biden s extended eviction moratorium and stimulus plan would make a big difference for renters, but advocates stress the need for additional help
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Biden signed an executive action Wednesday to extend the federal eviction moratorium through March.
Some experts want a broader moratorium, others say extensions will lead to more debt for renters.
The housing and rental crisis has hit communities of color especially hard.
Biden s $1.9 trillion stimulus package, The American Rescue Plan, includes many housing-related policies: $30 billion in rental and utility assistance, $5 billion to help prevent outbreaks among the homeless, and an even longer extension of the national eviction moratorium through September - efforts that would make a big difference in struggling communities, according to housing experts.
The Reverse Gold Rush: Is the California Dream Fading Away?
A U.C. Berkeley Institute of Government Studies poll from September 2019 revealed that over half of California’s voters, across all income and ethnic demographics, have now considered leaving. According to the poll, 46% of those considering moving were older conservatives deeply concerned over the state’s increasingly progressive political culture, and 71% of those moving were concerned about the high cost of housing.
U.S. Census Bureau numbers show that the middle-and-lower classes are leaving California at an even higher rate than the wealthy. The Manhattan Institute reported in July 2020 that due to declining blue-collar jobs and expensive consumer costs for electricity and housing (the highest in the nation,) “since 1990, Los Angeles’ Black share of the population has dropped in half… A recent poll found that 58 percent of African Americans express interest in leaving the state; 45 percent of Asians and Lat
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The first time Kirk McClain helped with the homeless count in King county, Washington, he himself had been living unsheltered for five years. He said he remembers stepping out at 2am on a surprisingly warm day in January 2014 along with the handful of others he was paired with, and the surreal feeling of looking under bridges and along a highway to search for those living in parallel circumstances to his own.
After three hours, his group identified about 30 people living unsheltered across a 2sq mile stretch of Burien, a small city just south of Seattle, interviewing some about how long they had been homeless, the services they had received, as well as asking them for their age, race and gender.