As the week saw the U.S. setting records in cases of coronavirus with states like Texas and Flordia seeing the worst spikes, Mike Pence claimes the country has slowed the spread and flattened the c…
with states like Texas and Flordia seeing the worst spikes, Mike Pence claimes the country has slowed the spread and flattened the curve to which John Oliver responded: “That is such an open and stupid lie.”addressed another crisis the country is about to face as a result of the pandemic: evictions.
“What are you doing?!” exclaimed Oliver. “It might be worth thinking twice about what you’re taking part in. If you’re throwing people out of their homes via Zoom, a platform you’re only using because it’s not safe for people to leave their homes.” According to statistics Oliver shared, approximately a million households have been evicted each year over the past decade and this has disproportionately impacted people of color. Black households are twice as likely to get evicted than white households. To add to that, women of color, particularly Black women are especially vulnerable. Lack of affordable housing has a systemic problem long before pandemic struck and like everything else, they got even worse.
Some can rely on the kindness of landlords who have worked with tenants including Mario Salerno, a landlord in New York who waived rent for his 200 tenants in July. However, some aren’t as kind. One renter in Arizona received threatening emails from their landlord in Canada while Michael Bowman in Mecklenburg County in North Carolina is, like many landlords and property managers, waiting to evict tenants at the first available opportunity.
Many landlords and property managers have been able to file for evictions in court this whole time. As a result, cases have been piling up as soon as moratoriums are lifted, which are happening, evictions will come fast. “Strikes have been an effective way of calling attention to how dire things are right now and while long term we desperately need a plan to fix our affordable housing crisis, in the short term, we just to find a way to keep people in their homes,” he said.
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