Thank you for tuning in to another episode of the Bakari Sellers podcast.

Today I have one of the most amazing interviews we've done on this show.

We have none other than Sonai Lathan coming in to talk to us about everything that's going on, her new projects, etc.

But before we get to, Sinah, I want to talk about the looming eviction crisis.

In case you missed it, the National Eviction Moratorium

ended on July 31st, which was this past Saturday. For over a year, as a result of

COVID relief legislation, there has been a moratorium on evictions.

Most of you all understand that the justification was pretty obvious.

During a pandemic, with far-reaching economic implications,

Americans' ability to pay their rent was constrained.

Add in a pandemic that is now re-emerging, you'll have potentially millions of Americans facing

eviction right when we're facing the very real threat of the delta variant

forcing closures and other dramatic measures becoming a reality again.

So it begs the question why a Democratic administration, a Democratic House, and a Democratic Senate

couldn't get this done when we've known for some time that July 31st would be the expiration

date.

The answer, unsurprisingly, is moderate Democrats who wanted

this moratorium to lapse. And to add insult to injury of the 46 billion

allocated for rental assistance across the country, only about 3 billion of the And moderate House Democrats decided to leave town instead of a vote to extend the moratorium.

So this is yet another issue where I'm asking my Democratic friends, what we intend to do in 2022 when we ask people who've been hanging on by a

thread to vote Democratic again when the justice issues like voting rights and

police reform remain unresolved and things like eviction moratoriums are allowed to lapse.

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