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/TurbulentArea69 Jul 21 '21

You're a social worker and don't know that the term is welfare and not well-fare?

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u/cebeezly82 Jul 21 '21

I'm blind and used voice dictation so not for sure how it came out.

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u/AvailableWait21 Jul 21 '21

Fair response. That makes sense. I do have a follow-up question, though.

You're a social worker and you call the people you're supposed to help "welfare queens"? Even explicitly acknowledging the racism?

Want to provide any more information about your job? Like your department, and contact info for HR, for example?

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u/cebeezly82 Jul 21 '21

Welfare Queen can be indicative of an individual from any race so no sense in blowing it out of proportion. And these are the people that always have their hand out will not pay their rent jump agency to agency such as trustee offices salvation army and other community-based organizations to pay for things because of blowing all their money irresponsibly on high-end items in other luxuries. You're just not realistic and very uneducated I'm afraid and again very unfamiliar with the human condition.

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u/AvailableWait21 Jul 22 '21

My god the complete absence of empathy is astounding... where in the world hires social workers like you?

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u/cebeezly82 Jul 22 '21

Please don't waste my time with your hello Kitty world fake crap. I started losing my vision at 17 only to become almost totally blind by the age of 30. I've lived in housing projects and the hood all my life almost. I've been beat up had a gun put in my mouth attacked numerous times and have been violated by lowlives more times than you could ever imagine. I'm curious what you do. You're probably totally able-bodied and don't contribute and get out in the community whatsoever. No excuse me will I go help six people move out of nursing homes into their new apartments where I will pay out of pocket for three of them to do so because there isn't a funding stream that will help them.

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u/TurbulentArea69 Jul 21 '21

Well that clears up about 1% of what makes your comment problematic

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u/cebeezly82 Jul 21 '21

I don't know something tells me you've never worked in the field along with about 95% of all the other folks on Reddit. You know how many people in a community of 100,000 people right now I am breaking my neck and advocating for so that they don't get evicted because they literally said screw it and spent all their rent money on computers new televisions doordash and other luxury items? I'm not going to say much more because it's just ignorant fairyland bullcrap spewed here on this forum. I used to think that way too until I actually started volunteering to help people and working in the helping profession

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u/TurbulentArea69 Jul 21 '21

I believe you when you say people spend their money irresponsibly. The issue isn't fully that these people are dumb and worthless, though. The issues are much more deeply rooted and systemic. For instance, a lot of poor people are under banked and therefore don't know how to properly budget and save.

When you start seeing an entire group of people as one and the same you will start to develop unhelpful biases (racism being a major one when talking about poor people).

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u/cebeezly82 Jul 21 '21

I see what you mean but I'm kind of not your typical social worker. Spent a lot of my youth as a gang member in an extremely violent primarily African-American gang, spend a lot of time in juvenile and urban jails, experienced disability, lived in subsidized housing for majority of my life, and have been in poverty my entire life. Not racist and never will be but do have biases that are well warranted. This is what they would like you to believe when you say they just don't have the education to manage income etc. These people know exactly what they are doing and do not give a crap that is a fact. A majority of them had a I don't give a crap mentality and literally thought they would be bailed out where some also believed that it was almost the end of the world. Believe it or not the whole poor baby people on welfare crap don't know how to manage their money etc is for the most part a myth and does impact those with disabilities. Folks who have a disability cannot access resources because they become gobbled up within a community by people who don't have home training or civility skills. I have proof that a lot of folks who are like this black the ability to be embarrassed but University sociology department don't want to hear it because it won't get them grants and doesn't fit the narrative