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Biden leans on governors and mayors to deflect heat over evictions
Politico via MSN ^ | 8/02/21 | Katy O'Donnell, Laura Barrón-López

Posted on 08/02/2021 6:14:52 PM PDT by Libloather

An escalating blame game between President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats over the expiration of the federal eviction ban has left local officials frustrated and scrambling to deal with a wave of renters now at risk of losing their homes.

The Biden administration on Monday rebuffed calls from Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other top Democrats to revive the eviction moratorium, which expired Saturday, after unsuccessfully leaning on Congress to enact its own ban last week.

The White House said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lacked legal authority to reinstitute the eviction prohibition - even on a limited or targeted basis - because the Supreme Court had made clear it believed the CDC overstepped its authority.

Facing a deadlock, Pelosi and White House officials pleaded with governors and mayors to fill the void, in part by speeding up the delivery of more than $46.5 billion in federal rental assistance that has languished as state and local governments struggled to stand up programs to deliver the funds. Local officials complained that the finger-pointing was unhelpful.

“We don’t need the recriminations,” said Michael Thurmond, chief executive officer of DeKalb County, Ga., which issued its own 60-day county-wide ban after the federal moratorium expired this weekend. “We just need to come together and save these families from a potentially catastrophic set of circumstances.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; Local News
KEYWORDS: biden; evictions; governors; mayors; michaelthurmond
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...left millions of hard-hit renters in danger of losing their homes...

Not their homes.

1 posted on 08/02/2021 6:14:52 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

My first thought,too
It’s NOT THEIR FRICKIN’ HOME

not sorry I’m yelling


2 posted on 08/02/2021 6:18:02 PM PDT by smvoice (I WILL NOT WEAR THE RIBBON. OR THE MASK)
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To: Libloather

Not their homes...correct.

Also, they always had the option of paying their rent.


3 posted on 08/02/2021 6:20:25 PM PDT by jdsteel ("A Republic, Madam, if you can keep it." Sorry Ben, looks like we blew it.)
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To: smvoice

Under the revolution there is no land ownership.

The state owns all land and property.

Anyone who objects is sent to re-education camps.

_That_ is the agenda of the Democratic Party.


4 posted on 08/02/2021 6:20:50 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: Libloather

Didn’t the moratorium come from FedGov? In the spirit of “The Buck Stops Here” states should tell FedGov:

It’s NOT my problem, Skippy


5 posted on 08/02/2021 6:21:09 PM PDT by Oscar in Batangas (An Honors Graduate from the Don Rickles School of Personal Verbal Intercourse)
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To: Libloather

Yes - the “Owners” of those homes are in danger of losing their property and incomes...


6 posted on 08/02/2021 6:23:12 PM PDT by 1FreeAmerican
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To: Libloather

Most of them have been on uE benefits plus extra $300 a week. Why were they behind on their rent?


7 posted on 08/02/2021 6:23:52 PM PDT by McGavin999 (biden is not my president )
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To: Libloather

Not their homes, needs to be said again; plus you can bet that the landlords are not going to be compensated and many small ones will be unable to continue without receiving rent.


8 posted on 08/02/2021 6:25:00 PM PDT by Truth29
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To: Libloather

What I am hearing from the state, the reason it is taking so long for funds to be disbursed is because of federal government oversight in the state programs. It has been over five months since my landlord application was submitted, my application has been accepted but the renter application is still under review. Still waiting on that $10K check any day now.


9 posted on 08/02/2021 6:26:55 PM PDT by eastforker (All in, I'm all Trump,what you got!)
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To: Truth29

That is why I never wanted to own rental property.

I had zero confidence that my rights would be protected by the courts if push came to shove.


10 posted on 08/02/2021 6:27:23 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: Truth29

That is why I never wanted to own rental property.

I had zero confidence that my rights would be protected by the courts if push came to shove.


11 posted on 08/02/2021 6:27:23 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: Libloather

Losing their “freeloader scumbag” status in somebody else’s house.


12 posted on 08/02/2021 6:29:03 PM PDT by Newtoidaho (All I ask of living is to have no chains on me.)
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To: Libloather

Easy Solution: Democrat Party should pay all the overdue rent for their deadbeat pals. You know, the same people who haven’t missed a welfare check or enhanced unemployment benefit.


13 posted on 08/02/2021 6:29:06 PM PDT by Chewbarkah
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There's a sgnificant labor shortage.

Perhaps they could get a job and pay their rent?

14 posted on 08/02/2021 6:29:39 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix circa 1984.)
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WHAT ABOUT THE LANDLORDS WHO HAVE NO INCOME IN OVER A YEAR????
Evil they were made to carry deadbeats out of their own pockets.
And this was started in the previous administration


15 posted on 08/02/2021 6:31:50 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Leave me alone, I have no incriminating evidence on the Clinton’s )
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To: 1FreeAmerican

Yes - the “Owners” of those homes are in danger of losing their property and incomes...


Bingo. But, to the leftist way of thinking, the tenants typically have more votes than the landlord.


16 posted on 08/02/2021 6:33:41 PM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: Libloather

Soooo,where will you renters go when the landlords go bankrupt???????


17 posted on 08/02/2021 6:35:17 PM PDT by Hambone 1934 (Dems love playing Nazis.....The republicans love helping them)
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To: Eagles6
There's a sgnificant labor shortage.

Perhaps they could get a job and pay their rent?

THAT'S RACIST!!!

18 posted on 08/02/2021 6:37:11 PM PDT by mcenedo (lying liberal media, our most dangerous and powerful enemy)
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To: HereInTheHeartland

They want them to go bankrupt.

Then government or their “friends” will buy up the foreclosed properties.

The get control, riches and shrink the middle class all in one effort.


19 posted on 08/02/2021 6:39:30 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Libloather

Plank #1 of the Communist Manifesto: Abolition of private property rights.


20 posted on 08/02/2021 6:40:51 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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