Why Evicting Millions During a Pandemic is Bad for Our Democracy
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🗓️ 3 September 2020
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| 0:00.0 | From the ACLU, this is at Liberty. I'm Molly Kaplan, your host for this episode. |
| 0:09.0 | The COVID-19 pandemic has brought economic devastation to people across the country. And in the |
| 0:15.0 | face of staggering unemployment numbers, millions of renters now face eviction, a situation made |
| 0:20.5 | even more dire by the global health |
| 0:22.1 | crisis. Congress responded by instating an eviction moratorium for more than 12 million rental |
| 0:27.2 | units across the country, but that moratorium expired on July 24th. Experts now say that 30 to 40 million |
| 0:35.8 | renters across the country are at risk of losing their homes. |
| 0:39.6 | ACLU senior staff attorney Sandra Park has been monitoring this eviction crisis since the start of |
| 0:44.4 | the pandemic. She's litigated discriminatory eviction policies in the U.S. for almost two decades, |
| 0:50.0 | and we're excited to have her here today to explain the latest. Sandra, welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:54.7 | Thank you, Molly. |
| 0:55.4 | It's great to be here. |
| 0:56.9 | Sandra, I wanted to start at the beginning of the current crisis that we're in with COVID-19. |
| 1:02.2 | So basically talking about what it looked like from the start in March and how evictions sort of came into your sites. |
| 1:10.2 | Sure. |
| 1:10.7 | Well, as you mentioned, I've been working on |
| 1:12.8 | evictions as an issue, as a gender justice and racial justice issue for many years at the |
| 1:17.8 | ACLU. But once the pandemic hit, we knew that we were facing a crisis of mass evictions. |
| 1:25.5 | We saw lockdowns in many parts of the country starting in March, |
| 1:30.3 | and those lockdowns were immediately shutting down businesses and schools and causing people to |
| 1:35.2 | lose their jobs. And once that happened, we knew that evictions were sure to come. Even before the |
| 1:41.9 | pandemic, we had 20 million rental households spending way more than their |
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