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Evictions: Pandemic Worsened, Tenant Justice - Black, Latinx, Women, Children, 'Our Heath Or Homes'
'Our Health or Our Homes': Tenants Facing Eviction Help Introduce New 'Keeping Renters Safe Act.' Sept. 24, '21.
- Democracy Now! News. The Delta variant continues to surge across the U.S., so has the housing & eviction crisis, with more than 11 million households now behind on rent. Most of those evicted are Black or Latinx, & the majority are single women with children.
We speak with a single mother & a high school student who have faced eviction & went to Washington, D.C., this week to help Congressmember Cori Bush & Sen. Elizabeth Warren introduce the Keeping Renters Safe Act to reinstate the federal pandemic eviction moratorium. “We need the eviction moratorium & the National Tenant Bill of Rights,” says Vivian Smith, a tenant activist with the Miami Workers Center.
We also speak with Faith Plank, a 17-year-old housing activist in Morehead, KY, who was evicted in March & says she has felt “the pain of that eviction” every day since. “I can’t focus on school when I’m worried about how I’m going to go to bed tonight,” says Plank.