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Federal Government To protect homeowners and renters still affected by COVID-19, ABA and White House team up on new initiative   Image from Shutterstock. The ABA is working with the White House on a new initiative to protect renters and homeowners who remain affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and related economic instability. On Wednesday, the White House Summit on Eviction Prevention will bring together local government, judicial, legal and community leaders from 50 cities to develop strategies to provide vulnerable families access to counsel, divert evictions and connect renters and landlor...

Month. >> john: aoc says she has the solution. >> if we want to reduce violent crimes and the number of people in our jails the answer is to stop building more of them. the answer is to build more hospitals. we pay organizers. we get people mental healthcare, over all healthcare, employment, etcetera, it's to support communities and not throw them away. >> john: let's break in ari. ari mental health and can tphoplics play into a certain amount of crime there. is plenty of other crime with nothing to do with either one of those two things. >> that's exactly right. it's a noble thought if only s...

Those who sell, those are use, and those who use crime drive the market. and they buy this stuff, creating the traffickers. so when they are buying it, guess how they are getting the money to buy it? they are stealing your stuff. so, the at the end of the day, this is not good policy. and he should know that. but, who is he playing to, anyway? i think people across the united states and iowa are smarter than to believe not holding people accountable for possessing cocaine, ecstasy, methamphetamine is bad. and think about this. how are we going to get people to go into diversion programs and ag...

What's going on there? >> actually the states have been leading the way on this issue for quite some time. for many states, states that people typically don't think of as involved in prison reform -- texas, my home state of north carolina, and others -- have looked at this issue for years and have looked at it primarily from an economic point of view. they focus on the human cost and the moral issues. but states quickly realize that the cost of prison, which has risen over 600% since 1980, was something that they could not sustain. and that by making smaller investments in prevention programs ...

Level? we talked about louisiana earlier. what's going on there? >> the states have been leading the way on this issue for quite some time. for many state, states that people don't think of as involved in prison reform, texas, my home state of north carolina, and others have looked at this issue for years and looked at a primarily from an economic point of view. they focus on the human cost and moral issues, but states quickly realize the cost of prison, which has risen 600% was something they could not sustain. and by making smaller investments in prevention programs and in reentry programs a...