Last week, the right-wing Supreme Court ruled against the extension of the CDC’s federal eviction moratorium, putting millions of tenants at risk across the country.
While we wait for Congress to take action, we can take action here in Massachusetts by passing the COVID Housing Equity Bill.
Massachusetts has hundreds of millions of dollars in federal rental assistance, but the application process is complex and resources are not reaching tenants in time to prevent unnecessary evictions.
The COVID Housing Equity Bill complements and strengthens the work of these existing programs by (1) ensuring that landlords pursue and cooperate with rental assistance programs before evicting, (2) pausing no-fault evictions through March 2022, and (3) pausing residential foreclosures, among other steps.
Housing is a human right, and never has that been more clear than during a pandemic.
Can you contact your legislators in support of the COVID Housing Equity Bill?
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