With Moratorium Lifted, Houston Becomes Largest U.S. City Where Evictions Can Resume

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Houston is now the largest city in the U.S. where evictions can resume. A rental assistance program there ran out of funding in just 90 minutes. 'I have no doubt about it, we are going to see homelessness,' one attorney said.

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Loren Elliott/AFP via Getty ImagesEvictions are expected to skyrocket in Texas where the state Supreme Court has lifted a moratorium on evictions and unemployment has risen to historic levels amid the coronavirus pandemic.

"We anticipate that there will be a tsunami of evictions filed," said Dana Karni, an attorney with Lone Star Legal Aid, which provides free legal representation to low-income Texans."I have no doubt about it, we are going to see homelessness." When COVID-19 hit, Hewitt lost her job babysitting her granddaughter and niece. Now she relies on her $800 disability check, which isn't enough to cover her $900 monthly rent. She said her apartment manager has warned her that eviction notices are on the way.

Hewitt submitted an application for the city's rental assistance program. If she doesn't get approved, she expects to be forced out of her home.

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Lower rent in short term, raise in long term. Interest only mortgage payments with extra payments tacked onto end of mortgage. Would help residents, and landowners would not lose financially.

Woman babysitting niece and granddaughter and she thinks her children would tell her to go live in a shelter?! I don't buy it. Sounds fake to me. P.S. What landlord would rent out a unit to someone that is probably only showing 800 a month income for a 900 a month unit. BULL.

i'm sure our fucking worthless state government will pray for everyone about to be homeless and do absolutely nothing else.

I see a spike of homeless people in Texas in the near future.

I've heard a LOT of republicans complaining about the homeless problem. it would be fascinating to see them actually do something that didn't make it worse.

So when people get evicted, what happens to voting?

When people get evicted, I endorse getting revenge upon their landlords.

Why would you lift the moratorium? Nothing has changed.

NoRepublicanLeftStanding2020

Texass

Just one more reason not to ever step foot in or do business with Texas again.

Government evicting it's own people.

Hw is being given the chance to find employment wrong?

You can look up your address by using the links below if you landlord has a federally backed mortgage Fannie Mae Freddie Mac

Texas, one star rating. Brags about it on its flag. Lone star state, with a Governor full of hate. Really Texas you could at least strive to get two stars.

spaldini I love my state with all my heart, but sometimes I hate this fuckin place. 😡🤬

The 'Red Death' had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous.

But the GOP doesn’t see any reason for another round of stimulus for taxpayers.

I have lots of problems with this but I'm really trying to keep it together for all the struggling landlords out there.

The Republican Senators are enjoying their 3-day weekend and might entertain this problem sometime in the near future

Oh this'll be interesting, when reality hits the conservative fantasy fan

Good job, Texas.

Capitalism is a death cult.

The unemployment rate in Texas is 12.8%. Last week, 134,381 Texans filed for unemployment whicc is a more than 1,000% increase over any week in 2019. There will be no one to fill those vacant homes once landlords are done kicking folks out 🤷🏽‍♂️🤷🏽‍♂️🤷🏽‍♂️

This is really fucked up

Recipe for disaster.

I suggest a Romanoff solution for Texas and the USA in general.

Wait til they have to start cleaning up the feces, garbage & people sleeping on their business entrances. None will have a valid address to vote in future elections.

Here come the Trumpvilles

This is garbage. As if the judges on the Texas Supreme Court are immune from this crisis. A pandemic can eat your wealth up overnight.

Time for the return of the vampire capitalists

This is what opening up means the rich will get richer

That's only going make everything worse, including the covid-19 spread.

That’s what voting Republican gets you. “Family values” my ass...

That's horrible. Not only tenanta will be put out but their credit tarnished making it difficult to move. Cash Landlords taking a hit too. All the way around messed up. Do better US

Let me guess That was a republiKKKlan held state supreme court ?

This is what NorthmanTrader calls a buy signal

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Maybe the churches will house all these people, right? Now that Trump says they will all be open for business again.

White people about to become homeless. Watch how fucking fast the Right changes their tone. 👀

Texas

Congrats to the WuhanPOTUS realDonaldTrump

On the plus side you can take your guns to church! :-)

Seems bad

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The USA 🇺🇸 is definitely not addressing the society problems.

many of the company's renting are big banks that scooped up property during the last Republican president’s economic failure

But everything is ok, right, cause Trump is off golfing today!

DeityFree Glad we don’t live in Terrible Texas.

This is fucked up. Capitalism is evil. Forcing homelessness in a pandemic. Sickening

I get it... y'all don't want homeless ppl, especially due to losing jobs out of their control.... but landlords can't house ppl for free.... they got bills too. They save for year to buy properties to lease out.... renters should save too.....

Austin is full. Thanks.

Clearly the destruction of these lockdowns is going unimaginably awful.

No shit. Have you no 💖? Let some of big brother oil help!! Please🙏

That's the South for y'all!

Let's use government pension funds to pay the rent for the unfortunate tenants.

Compassionate conservatism 😜

The US is so screwed. So many poor being sacrificed. Never again tell me it is anything other than a nation of hate.

So we bail out Wall Street, cruise companies, corporations, etc. BUT NOT THE ACTUAL PEOPLE. Very sad days. And shameful.

Unacceptable

Without monetary help, we are all potential looters.

A third world country with a better PR department.

Evicted people will eventually become desperate. Crime will rise. America better get its act together. Tax the rich to pay for these programs. All these rich evangelical whores need to take care of their own. You’re living high on their dime.

That line from ‘Goodfellas’ comes to mind: “F*ck you, pay me”

The whole country needs a rent freeze and we needed it in April

GOPCorruptionOverCountry

With this freedom - braveheart - open back up - demand... we are going to see this everywhere. The economy is only as strong as its weakest link. I'm an ambitious, successful single mom. I bought my first house four years ago on my own. And there's a good chance I'll lose it now.

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Small time landlords are a lot more willing to work with people who lost a job or had an unexpected expense.

This is insane.

Another Texas finest hours, where are these unemployed people suppose to go?

Oh, don't worry. I bet there's going to be an all-out effort on the part of both business and government to make sure that they *see* the homelessness that they've created as little as possible.

Instead of giving millions of tax dollars let's help out the homeless instead. NPRIsDemocrat

Don't worry JoelOsteen will help out!!! 😂😜

Watch the crime and murder rate in Houston, already infamous for its high crime and murder rate, skyrocket.

AND DONALD AND MITCH JUST FIDDLE AND LIE.

Shocker. Texas. Where life is precious only *before* birth.

quick., guard all state borders texas is about to purge again.

GovAbbott you opened for business, but forgot the unemployed?

If they start evictions people need to post the name of the rental facility, company or owner somewhere online and these people and businesses should be boycotted and driven out of business.

Isn’t capitalism great?

It’s disgusting to see such a low level of empathy and humanity in time like this days!

Houston will be the San Fran of the south.

This is insane. Putting ppl on the street right now is a death sentence for that city. How do folks not understand that Rona don't care about your problems? It just spreads and kills.

When you consider the long run cost of homelessness UBI seems more and more like the most economical solution to this problem. To bad we don't have a presidential candidate that looks for cost effective solutions to this anymore.

Many ppl have incomes including relieve fund plus unemployment benefits which exceeded their normal wages. They should be able to resume normal financial responsibilities , particularly Texas is back to reopen.

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What is housing demand like in Houston? Are there people lining up to fill those vacated apartments?

How is it pro-business to not ensure a safe, housed, healthy workforce?

Given the hit the O&G sector has taken this is not going to end well. I guess people recently laid off are going to suddenly get all their lost income back?

This is a disgrace. The same is going to happen in Illinois, Michigan, California, you know the states I’m talking about. Mass evictions, homelessness, poverty, and according to GovPritzker, most Illinoisans are ok with all of this. They greatly approve his leadership.

Other countries took care of their citizens by giving them an income during the pandemic and banning the practice of evictions during that time

I feel for you guys, God speed. This is going to kill. Sad.

Texas gunna Texas

Will the uber-wealthy prosperity preacher, joel osteen, use his riches to help Houston's poor? Or will he continue keeping for himself what others have donated? osteenradio

Other countries took care of their citizens by giving them income during the pandemic and banning the practice of addictions during that time

Open up your killing people and economies.

I feel for people

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