Usa, the new aid package for Covid blocked by Trump until the elections. This is how evictions and homelessness are on the rise

Donald trump, returned to the White House after being hospitalized for COVID-19, gave order to their gods stop until the elections negotiations with me Democrats in a new pack of help to the population because “after my victory we will pass a great law of stimulus“. For the challenger Joe biden “he has walked away Americans. “That, despite the employment statistics blurb partially denied by the institutions themselves, have increasingly difficulty meeting basic expenses such as House. In the absence of regulatory protections, the evictions, and at the time of coronavirus the condition of Homeless it has already become explosive. In California temporary measures such as transformation of hotel in homeless housing. And the issue of housing runs the risk of becoming the first difficult test for the next president.

the Care law, which had guaranteed a notable increase in unemployed benefits and $ 1,200 per American, expired at the end of July. With the vote approaching, the approval of a new aid package also advocated by the president of the Fed. Jerome powell is hostage to electoral tactics. The Democrats, who control the Camera, had proposed a new one Heroes Act gives 2.2 trillion dollars, 1 trillion less than the previous proposal. Far from the spending will of the Republicans who control the Senate and the White House and did not intend to launch a package that would exceed 1.5 trillion dollars This up to the coup de théâtre de Triumph, which blocked everything. On the other hand, he says he is ready to sign a new executive order after those signed in August. they did not bring liquidity in the pockets of taxpayers.

the official statistics They say that most Americans have returned to work in recent months. In August the unemployment has shrunk from 10.2% to 8.4 percent. But new hires have slowed. In July, jobs had grown by 1.7 million, in August new people working increased by 1.4 million. The unemployed, according to Bureau of Labor StatisticsInstead, they fell to 2.8 million. How is it possible? The answer lies in the calculation methodologies. As in Italy, the measure of unemployment is based on interviews in which people are asked if they have actively looked for work in the last four weeks. If a person states that they have not sought employment or been unable to work short-term for family reasons, they are officially out of the workforce. And if you are out of the workforce, you cannot be unemployed.

The tirades about employment data have been going on since last May, when they were officially recorded 21 million unemployed, compared to almost 30 million unemployment checks. These included temporary work stoppages, which became permanent due to the emergency, work halftime that in some states allow access to unemployment benefits, and get out me Expectations, whose owners were considered “employed but absent from work.” The Bureau of Labor Statistics has recognized several counting and sorting errors, but he left his data unaltered. In May, for example, unemployment officially fell to 13.3%, from 14.7% in April. According to the research center Brookingshowever, the rate should have exceeded 17%, approaching what was expected by the consensus of economists. Not a mere academic or ideological dispute, but a substantial difference in the interpretation of reality, which in June led Congress to delay the renewal of aid, and Trump to celebrate the coming months, forecasting “a very good July, a very good August and a spectacular September.”

The difficulties facing the country with the stars and stripes are revealed today on the issue of the house, for which August was a symptomatic month. At the end of July the provisions of Care law which, by blocking evictions and guaranteeing subsidies, has prevented many families from ending up on the streets. In recent weeks a executive order signed by Trump promoted a moratorium against evictions throughout 2020 for those who win less than $ 99,000 per year and meet certain requirements. A measure palliative that is not accompanied by subsidies to bear the burden of rents. But it was enough to stop the wave of evictions that had started in recent weeks, as recorded by the investigations of theEviction lab of the University of Princeton which extracts data from court records and monitors the situation in 17 large and medium-sized cities, including Houston, Phoenix e Boston. In the time window in which there was no regulatory protection, there were evictions soaring, according to the researchers. TO Richmond, for example, the eviction declarations registered in the first week of September were more than four times those normally observed in previous years.

In the second half of August he took over the Census Bureau, more than a quarter of tenants said they did not expect to be able to pay in September. the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, federal agency that deals with personal and health services, and Health Department, They will ensure compliance with the new moratorium, to prevent evicted families from going to live on the streets during a pandemic that is not yet under control. A potential situation explosiveThat starts from afar and that without a new aid package only the evictions will be postponed. In 2016 there were 3.7 million, seven per minute, with no informal or illegal transfers. According to National Coalition for the Homeless, 20 million Americans already before Covid were spending everything they earned each month and, in case of unforeseen events, they were exposed to the risk of being homeless at some point in their life. With the pandemic, the number can increase dramatically.

In California in recent years the number of homeless families has grown enormously and in the relationship “The State of the Homeless in America“Published in September 2019 by the White House Council of Economic Advisers, it highlighted the problems afflicting Los Angeles in particular, attributing responsibility for the delicate situation to democratic local administrations, waiting for more decisive action from the police. The report noted that “policies aimed at stop people simply because they are homeless are wrong and inhumane. At the same time, the police can play an important role in helping to get them off the streets to go to reception centers”.

The opportunity for such a policy this year was overtaken by the health emergency, which raised new problems, but also sparked new ideas. Last April, San Francisco’s largest reception center was transformed into a outbreak, registering more than 100 people, including positive guests and staff on Covid-19. But somehow a solution was ready, with the project Room key, then became House key, released by the Governor of California Gavin newsom The last week. This program, which uses funds from the Cares Act, aims to transform hotel rooms into permanent housing for the homeless, and in a few weeks it became operational: it currently has 16,500 rooms, of which 11,600 are already occupied. An idea supported by organizations and advocacy groups, which meanwhile have promoted the campaign “There are no vacancies in California”, To provide housing for all of the 151,000+ homeless Californians.