From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone.

Fears of a full-blown eviction crisis after a law banning evictions is allowed to expire.

So what happens next for struggling renters? Well, that depends largely on where they live.

The hardest hit region is the southeast, with close to 30% of renters in Mississippi and South Carolina behind last

month. Over six million American families disproportionately black and brown are tenuously behind

on rent. This crisis is happening now, but in fact it's always been with us, created not by

pandemic, but by deliberate policy.

What did they need? Houses, who have the money to loan to developers, banks, who would

ensure the banks, the Federal Housing Administration, and the Federal Housing Administration

had one tiny little condition, don't sell to black people.

It's all coming up after this.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

I'm Brooke Gladstone.

It's safe to say that Steven Soderberg's 2011 movie Contagion reigns supreme in cinematic analogies to our

current moment. But this August, we are seeing another contender arise, the 1993 film starring

Bill Murray, Groundhog Day. I'm reliving the same day. H'm re-living the same day.

Caught in the trap of maddening repetition, not pandemic.

That's recurring perhaps, but not perpetual.

No, the problem I'm talking about is housing.

Fears of a full-blown eviction crisis after a law banning evictions is allowed to expire. Are millions

on the brink of losing their homes? Nationwide, there are nearly 10 million fewer jobs than there

were at the start of the pandemic, and now an estimated 6.7 million renter households currently

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