We're taking a little break as we often do and also as we often do, I have a rerun episode for you.

I always try to find a particularly interesting or relevant rerun episode.

And today definitely is both given the news about the Supreme Court and the eviction moratorium ending for many.

This episode caught my eye as I was looking through our archives.

This is from almost exactly a year ago from the first time we were talking about the potential end of the eviction moratorium.

So I guess that makes September eviction season in America.

Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of a Left podcast in which we shall learn about the easily predictable yet growing eviction crisis in America

that is entirely thanks to a political and economic system that is structurally incapable of functioning for the benefit of people over profit.

Clips today come from MSNBC, Off-Kilter, The Michael Brooks Show, The Rational National, Now This and The Brian Lairer Show.

A back in April labor experts warned that people would be on the hook for months of missed rent or mortgage payments, a kind of bill that would be far too much for many households to pay, especially if someone's been out of work.

The Census Bureau found that nearly 50% of renter households in America were so-called cost burdened.

That means they spend more than a third of their income on housing costs, total income for the house.

Between the federal and state protections ending and all the other stresses on households, 20 to 28 million people could be forced from their homes by September.

20 to 28 million. Let me give you some context.

That's three to four times as many people who lost their homes to foreclosure following the last financial crisis and that took nine years, not two months.

This is one of the most pressing problems facing our country and the clock is ticking.

Some states and localities are extending eviction protections like Massachusetts, where the governor, Charlie Baker, extended the state's eviction freeze until mid-October.

New York City is going to start mediation between landlords and tenants to try and stop a massive eviction crisis in that city and in Congress.

The Emergency Housing Protection and Relief Act, providing rental assistance along with eviction and foreclosure protections, passed the house with zero Republican support.

The Coronavirus pandemic has made it abundantly clear that housing is healthcare.

Yet while the pandemic is far from over, in communities across the country rent is coming due as a growing number of eviction moratoria that have been keeping people in their homes are coming to an end.

The numbers of people at risk of going over what summer calling and eviction cliffs are staggering according to the Census Bureau.

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