1/ The more I think about the failure to extend the eviction moratorium, the more I think there were powerful forces working against it. Too many people are saying “Hey it wasn’t us, “It wasn’t us, “It wasn’t us.”
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2/ They didn’t *want* to extend the moratorium. And why? Because the very people most at risk of eviction are the people they want to go back to work at the low paying jobs that are available now.
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3/ Lifting the moratorium is a way of saying “OK, you had your break, now get back to work.” Extending the moratorium would have given people more of a chance to consider other options, to be part of a collective challenge to the chronic reality of survival wages.
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4/ They didn’t expect too big a reaction to this & as usual they failed to consider long-term consequences. But the reaction is real; it’s important to keep it up. I hope someone will wake up & make this right for the sake of those effected & for the sake of our political future.

Aug 1, 2021 · 12:57 AM UTC

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Replying to @marwilliamson
*affected (English teacher edit)
The other side of that is that people are going bankrupt because they have to keep paying the mortgage on their rental property and which rent is not being
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Call me confused but don’t Democrats control The House of Representatives the Senate and the White House?
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Nah, you guys just can’t govern any better than Trump
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If you have perpetual eviction moratoriums who will pay for rental housing maintenance and repairs. Who will build new affordable rental housing? Better to solve the homeless problem.
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I think you're right ... I think they figured they could just sneak out of Washington ... and there would be no consequences!
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1st Pelosi does press conf w/ lame excuse 4 why she+Biden r killing #studentloanforgiveness ? Then she didn’t realize #EvictionMoratorium was coming up? Californians need get correlation of contributions+lack of action! Why shld we vote against Newsom recall+get nothing?
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This is the best explanation I’ve heard.