Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, led 30 of his Senate colleagues in sending a letter to President Trump on September 17, urging him to work with Congress to enact bipartisan legislation that provides the emergency assistance and protections millions of renters need to remain stably housed during the pandemic.
Senator Brown notes that millions of children and youth remain at risk of eviction without rental assistance. While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) federal eviction moratorium rightly acknowledges that evictions pose a significant threat to individual and public health, the action does not include any assistance to keep renters in their homes when the moratorium expires.
In the letter, Senator Brown highlights the disproportionate impact of the pandemic on Black and Latino households’ ability to pay rent and discusses the lasting, detrimental effects of housing instability and evictions on children’s health, safety, and future success. “This pandemic is not only revealing the inequities in our society but exacerbating them,” the senator writes.
The letter calls on President Trump and Senate Republicans to return to the negotiating table and pass the housing provisions and protections included in the House-passed “HEROES Act,” including a uniform national eviction moratorium through March 27, $100 billion in emergency rental assistance, and $11.5 billion to prevent and respond to outbreaks among people experiencing homelessness.
Read the letter at: https://bit.ly/2EgBdGc