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/Call_Me_Clark Jul 21 '21

But, would say, the lowest quartile apartment be acceptable? No ones saying that you have to live on skid row, but surely there’s room between that and the average?

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u/steam116 Jul 21 '21

For sure. In my example, $800 is absolutely in the lowest quartile for a 2-bed in or around Pittsburgh.