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Good program that divided the administration has only pushed out 7% of the $40 billion offer for this having an eviction moratorium means there's no incentive to do it if you can be evicted from your home you have no incentive to pay your rent and to do this so lifting the eviction moratorium on more effectively putting the rental assistance helps everybody the homeowners go on to these people because they want to get their back rent and the people living there don't want to be evicted either we need to lift the moratorium and push this out to the people can get it and we can get the money out...

Soon millions of americans could be facing eviction from their homes after the federal moratorium on evictions expired over this past weekend. now democrats are pressuring party leadership and president biden to act. the white house shifting the focus to using unspent housing assistance to soften the blow. joining me now to speak about this, peter hepburn from princeton university to track how far this extends. thank you for taking time this morning. >> thanks for having me on. >> so give us a sense of numbers here. with this aid, this moratorium expiring, how many americans exactly do we beli...

People. and the president ought to extend the moratorium. he shouldn't be hiding behind kavanaugh and then extend it and if they want to sue to the supreme court, let them do it. but there is a lot of discontent in the house democratic caucus about how this is being handled. >> let me ask you this, this was put in place during the depth of an economic downturn, during the pandemic and the economy is coming back, and hiring is coming bag, in many cases there are more jobs available than folks to fill those jobs and stimulus checks an unhas -- enhanced unemployment, hasn't there been enough of a...

To lead a healthy life if you don't have stable, affordable housing. and with the end of this eviction moratorium, there are millions of people in our country who are going to be evicted very soon. congress did not act to extend that. and although there are billions of dollars to provide for back rent, most states haven't put in place the systems to get that money out. and so we are really in the midst of an eviction crisis in our country in the middle of a very dangerous pandemic. that's not something we should allow to continue to happen. >> okay, dr. besser, thank you very much. dr. brillia...

Renters say that they're behind on rent which is more than we would see under normal circumstances. we also know they are a lot further behind on rent. so where spiyou might be a few weeks or a month behind, now we're looking at three, four, five months and that is harder to catch up on without any sort of assistance from the government. >> and is -- just to understand the facts and how this works, if, say, with this moratorium expiring, if these renters do not come up with the money not just for this month's rent but for one, two, three, four months back today, does that mean that they're out...