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The $600 stimulus check is not enough and Biden's proposed $2,000 just adds insult to injury. Singular stimulus checks of any amount are not suffiecnt, we need replacement income for those who cannot work. One-third of people are struggling to pay their bills and are unable to catch up with rent. The eviction moratoriums nationally and locally have stopped millions of evictions but rent debt is still piling up. The looming eviction crisis will hit oppressed communities, already unevenly affected by the pandemic, the hardest.

Big landlords are abusing loopholes and filing eviction lawsuits against families regardless of the moratoriums. Additionally, the official eviction moratorium is set to expire on January 31st.


 

Despite all their claims to the contrary the government can immediately cancel rents and mortgages, house the homeless and stop evictions. Yet they choose to bail out the corporations and the banks. The money is there to give the people what they need to survive this pandemic. The money is there to help people keep their homes without accumulating debt. We must and can build the movement to defend our communities and stop all evictions and foreclosures.

Join the caravan and ride with us to demand they cancel the rent and mortgages and help build the movement to ensure housing for all.

WE DEMAND:

• Cancel the Rents and Mortgages!
• No evictions!
• No foreclosures!
• House the homeless in vacant housing!


 

 

With more than 50 million people having lost their jobs a wave of evictions and foreclosures is beginning to sweep the country. The number of homeless is growing. Instead of providing real relief the government is unleashing police departments to evict people from their homes, harass the homeless and continue to carry out routine acts of violence and brutality in Black, Latino and Indigenous communities. Click here to sign our petition.

 

The patchwork of city and state moratoriums on evictions are not enough. In a few months when these moratoriums are lifted and the rents come due -- we will still not have the money! Massive testing and personal protective equipment are still not available, despite the great productive capacity of the United States. In December 2019, when COVID-19 presented in China, the United States was warned that we would be affected. Instead of using the next two months to prepare, Trump and the U.S. government ignored public health experts, even ridiculing them. Now, due to this lack of preparedness, the United States has become the epicenter of the pandemic.

More than 300,000 people in the United States have died and more than 7 million have gotten ill. People are being evicted from their homes while at the same time the COVID-19 pandemic is surging and we are being told to “stay home!” There is no end to the health and economic crisis in the near future. Tens of millions of people have lost their jobs since March with millions more jobless to come. We are in the worst depression since the 1930s, and it’s getting worse.

 



       
 

Actions in 40 cities say ‘Stop Evictions!’

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ithaca tenants win major #CancelTheRents victory

 

 

 

 

 

 

NYC ‘March Against Billionaire Landlords’ hits corporations for housing crisis

 

 

 

 

 


As a result of the economic crisis, many renters will be unable to pay their rent this month. No one should lose their housing for any reason in this crisis! Now is the time to act to cancel rents and mortgage payments for tenants, homeowners, small landlords and other small businesses!

A short-term suspension of evictions is not enough to save people's homes. And the meager rescue stimulus payments the government provided are long gone for most people. Even if there is another one, it will be needed for food, healthcare and other necessities.

Canceling rents and mortgage payments for the duration of the crisis can be won! Since the start of the pandemic in the United States, the federal government has pumped at least 5 trillion dollars into the big banks and the largest corporations. Only $249 billion was allocated for unemployment funding. This massive gift to the banks — the 1% at the top, compared to the 160 million U.S. workers — is 20 times the amount allotted for the unemployed. The money is there, it is simply a question of whether it is used to bail out Wall Street or to protect the homes of poor and working people. This wealth and the vast number of vacant housing units can be used to provide shelter for the homeless as well.

The government has the authority to cancel the rent. In fact, a bill has already been introduced in Congress, the Rent and Mortgage Cancellation Act . But this will be bitterly opposed by the landlords and big banks. The mobilization of the people, done in a socially responsible way, is urgently needed to ensure housing for all.



         
 
Over 40 Cities Joined the Day of Action to Cancel the Rents and Mortgages!
 
Nationwide Media Coverage of April 25th 'Cancel the Rents' Car Caravans
 
         
     

 

 

 

 

 

 



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