{"id":30718,"date":"2021-08-02T15:54:13","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T15:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colorlines.madeostudio.com\/article\/bipoc-renters-disproportionately-risk-federal-eviction-protections-end\/"},"modified":"2021-08-02T15:54:13","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T15:54:13","slug":"bipoc-renters-disproportionately-risk-federal-eviction-protections-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/article\/bipoc-renters-disproportionately-risk-federal-eviction-protections-end\/","title":{"rendered":"BIPOC Renters Disproportionately at Risk as Federal Eviction Protections End"},"content":{"rendered":"
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BIPOC Renters Disproportionately at Risk as Federal Eviction Protections End<\/h3>\n

\n By Shani Saxon<\/span> Aug 02, 2021<\/span>\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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Evictions are expected to rise dramatically over the next few months because a <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>federal moratorium<\/span><\/span><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> preventing landlords from evicting financially challenged tenants <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>expired<\/span><\/span><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> on Sunday (August 1). <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Congress <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>failed<\/span><\/span><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> to pass new legislation that would extend protections, resulting in millions of people facing a potential housing crisis. People of color in particular are disproportionately at risk of evictions, partly because they are twice as likely to be renters, <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Vox<\/span><\/span><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> reports. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The Biden administration on Thursday (July 29)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>announced<\/span><\/span><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> that it would be forced to allow the<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Centers for Disease Control and Prevention moratorium<\/span><\/span><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> to expire in light of the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>decision<\/span><\/span><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> stating protections couldn\u2019t continue beyond July 31 without congressional authorization. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cStruggling renters are now facing a health crisis and an eviction crisis,\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Alicia Mazzara<\/span><\/span><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>, senior research analyst at the<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Center on Budget and Policy Priorities<\/span><\/span><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>, told <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>The Associated Press<\/span><\/span><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>. \u201cWithout the CDC\u2019s moratorium, millions of people are at risk of being evicted or becoming homeless, increasing their exposure to COVID just as cases are rising across the country. The effects will fall heavily on people of color, particularly Black and Latino communities, who face greater risk of eviction and more barriers to vaccination.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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According to a report  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>released by the Aspen Institute<\/span><\/span><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> in July:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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More than 15 million people live in households that are currently behind on their rental payments (7.4 million adults, 6.5 million households), which places them at legal risk of eviction. According to one estimate, these households collectively owe more than $20 billion to their landlords.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u2026these renters may face eviction, civil lawsuits for unpaid rent, and aggressive debt collection\u2014crises that will continue to cause harm years into the future. Nearly 50% of those who are behind on rent anticipate that they will be evicted in the next two months. The threat of eviction is particularly acute for renters of color. Currently, 22% of Black renters and 17% of Latinx renters are in debt to their landlords, compared to 15% overall and 11% of White renters. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
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Additionally, as Vox reports, low-income families are \u201cless likely to have savings to pay rent and more likely to have been employed in <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Covid-affected industries<\/span><\/span><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>.\u201d The news outlet also points to a June<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>report<\/span><\/span><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> by<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>City Life\/Vida Urbana<\/span><\/span><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/span><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>and the<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Massachusetts Institute of Technology<\/span><\/span><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> that \u201c78 percent of eviction filings in Boston\u201d during the early days of the pandemic were in communities of color. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Rep. Cori Bush<\/span><\/span><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> (D-MO), who has<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>discussed<\/span><\/span><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> her past experience with homelessness, slept on the steps of the U.S. Capitol on Friday (July 30) in protest of the end of eviction protections. \u201cI am dirty, sticky, sweaty. I still have on what I had on last night. This is how people will have to live if we don\u2019t do something \u2026 they deserve human dignity and deserve for people that represent them to show up, do the work, to make sure basic needs are met today,\u201d she told<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>CNN<\/span><\/span><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>
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rnEmily Benfer<\/span><\/span><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>, a visiting law professor at<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Wake Forest University<\/span><\/span><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> and chair of the<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>American Bar Association\u2019s COVID-19 Task Force Committee on Eviction<\/span><\/span><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>, told<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Pew<\/span><\/span><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> that the end of eviction protections will ultimately have a devastating impact on families who are already struggling. \u201cWithout the moratorium in place,\u201d she said, \u201cthis creates a catastrophic situation that guarantees displacement, fear, harm for tenants and an inability for landlords to recoup the rental debt.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
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Low-income families are \u201cless likely to have savings to pay rent and more likely to have been employed in COVID-affected industries,\u201d Vox reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_gspb_post_css":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[16402,2058,3807,5257,16413,11065,16410],"article-type":[],"topic-meta":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30718"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30718"},{"taxonomy":"article-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-type?post=30718"},{"taxonomy":"topic-meta","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic-meta?post=30718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}