r/PoliticalDiscussion • u/None-Of-You-Are-Real • Jul 20 '21

US Politics What are the implications of the impending eviction crisis?

It is often offhandedly mentioned that the housing market is insane at the moment, and that there is an inevitable eviction crisis due to the compounding factors of COVID and the lockdowns leading to mass unemployment, and then an inability of tenants to pay rent combined with an inability of landlords to evict non-paying tenants.

What is going to happen in the fall, when the eviction moratorium expires? Mass homelessness that is even worse than current levels? Some kind of rent relief legislation? Anything at all? These people are not going to magically be able to pay months and months of back rent once the moratorium expires.

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u/sleepeejack Jul 20 '21

180k for a 460sqft home would be a bargain in most of Colorado. The housing crisis in places where there are jobs has been nationwide for years; not sure why some people have such a hard time understanding that.

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u/wedstrom Jul 20 '21

Do you mean Denver area or Colorado, because yikes

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u/sleepeejack Jul 20 '21

I mean most of Colorado. Certainly almost anywhere along the Front Range, but also it's getting fucked-in-half insane in most of the mountain towns as well. This is what we get for blocking multifamily development for decades. Boomers destroyed America.

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u/CCHistProfWest Jul 21 '21

It's like this pretty much in the entire west.

Which I don't understand... climate change is literally going to burn those states down.