The $600 stimulus check is not enough and Biden's proposed $1,400 just adds insult to injury. One-time stimulus checks of any amount are not sufficient, we need consistent 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 paused millions of evictions but rent debt is still piling up. The looming eviction crisis will hit oppressed communities, already especially affected by the pandemic, the hardest. Big landlords are abusing loopholes and filing eviction lawsuits against families regardless of the moratoriums.

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. Click here to sign our petition.

			Actions in 30 cities say ‘Cancel the rents and mortgages!’ in January 2021

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.

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 400,000 people in the United States have died and more than 25 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.

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