The coronavirus pandemic threatens America with a new wave of homelessness due to a cratering economy, expiring unemployment stimulus payments and vanishing renter protections.

What they're saying: "I've never seen this many people poised to lose their housing in such a short period of time," said Bill Faith of the Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio to AP.

The big picture: 23 million Americans are at risk of eviction and exposure to the shelter system during a pandemic, the AP reports, citing the Aspen Institute.

The latest Census Bureau Household Pulse Survey found last week that more than 26.5% of American adults 18 or older questioned whether they would be able to make last month's rent or mortgage payment or had little or no confidence they could pay next month, the AP notes.
Many lower-income Americans initially got by on credit cards and stimulus checks, National Apartment Association CEO Bob Pinnegar told Axios' Kim Hart.

Now those options are gone. "The hole that they're getting in from a financial standpoint is going to take years for them to dig out of, if they ever can."


https://www.axios.com/million-americ...2c2d9573c.html

The American people are being played by the US military. The US military unnecessarily spends way too much on themselves. Tax dollars should be routed into the people. Can't convict those who own their homes.

TUNA 2020

They should have saved money when they had a chance.

Agreed BIG TIME with diverting taxes away from our disgustingly oversized military and instead spending it on public infrastructure, roads, housing, education, health care, etc.


Our phucking military is comically oversized.

"You have given out too much Reputation in the last 24 hours, try again later."

Need more info. 70% of Americans on unemployment were making more than the they were working. Were they not paying their rent during those 4 months? Because if they were, then they're good until ~Sept. 1st....plus in all honesty it can take a coupe of months to get someone out of your rental.

If one was receiving unemployment for that last 4+ months and stopped paying their rent the whole time, then what do you expect to happen??

What types of jobs are gone?

this is what they get for not saying "no hobo"