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Is California Still Facing an Eviction Tsunami When the Moratorium Ends?
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In the past few weeks, 22 states have announced they would end federal pandemic unemployment benefits, which pay recipients $300 on top of state benefits and are scheduled to run into September. (New Hampshire is the latest.)
Many of the states’ governors, all Republicans, made statements similar to that of Gov. Henry McMaster of South Carolina, who said the expanded benefits are “incentivizing and paying workers to stay at home rather than encouraging them to return to the workplace.” The U.S. Chamber of Commerce said the same.
Businesses of all types report that they are having trouble hiring despite high unemployment. But are expanded unemployment benefits really to blame?
A UCLA team has found that in the first three months of the COVID-19 pandemic, more than three million Californians reported their households went without sufficient food.
That was an increase of 22% from the pre-pandemic rate, and the impact was felt widely across the state, especially among those already facing hunger: those experiencing household food insufficiency prior to COVID-19 were 40 times more likely to be food insufficient - defined simply as “not having enough food to eat.” Of adults who experienced household food insufficiency during COVID-19, almost 80% were food insufficient prior to the pandemic.
“Our findings show regional differences, across California, in food insufficiency risk,” said
Housing Stability
The Census Household Pulse Survey asked renters in March how confident they were in being able to pay April rent. Twenty–seven percent of Massachusetts renters were not confident, the lowest percentage of any state except for Vermont. With all due respect to Vermont, where housing costs are not as high, our COVID-19 housing safety net in Massachusetts may be the best in the nation.
The program Residential Assistance for Families in Transition (RAFT) has, in less than a year, ramped up to be the preeminent (and movingly named) housing stabilization service of the pandemic. So far it has generously covered over $50 million in rent arrears and going forward stipends. Thanks to federal largess, it is expected to cover $1 billion over the next year, the entirety of pandemic housing, up to 15 months per impacted household.
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