Amid a COVID-induced economic crisis that is causing 26 million Americans to go hungry, up to 40 million to face imminent eviction, and more than 50 million to file for unemployment, Americans are looking to elected officials for leadership, guidance, and hope. On Sunday morning, Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi answered in an unusual manner:…

Amid a COVID-induced economic crisis that is causing 26 million Americans to go hungry, up to 40 million to face imminent eviction, and more than 50 million to file for unemployment, Americans are looking to elected officials for leadership, guidance, and hope. On Sunday morning, Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi answered in an unusual manner:…

Congress’s inability to actually represent the real-live human beings of America, combined with an economic system that rewards lack of empathy and an excess of greed, has brought us to a dark time when an oncoming tsunami of financial ruin, destitution and evictions towers over our heads, blocking out the sunlight. The impending evictions may…

The best defense against a raging pandemic that has already claimed over 152,000 American lives is simply to stay home. But even this could soon become impossible for millions, as the United States is facing an impending eviction crisis of “biblical proportions,” according to the Housing Rights Initiative. Earlier this week, the federal moratorium on evictions…

In a ‘normal’, pre-pandemic economy, a number roughly equal to the population of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania – or about 3.7 million people – are evicted every month in the United States, according to Matthew Desmond, principal investigator of Princeton University’s “Eviction Lab” project, which tracks evictions throughout the country and produces the first nationwide eviction database. But,…