Evictions Thread

[Zooey]

We are nearing the end of the month, and we are almost to another pivotal crisis moment. I can’t think of anything that has happened since the New Deal that would give me any reason to think that our government is up to the challenge of this moment.

I just saw this tweet from Krystal Ball, and it got me to thinking.

You have a tenant with no money, and a landlord with no money, and so you hand money to…a lawyer? Then both sides can go to court and waste money they don’t have in order to destroy both sides. From there, of course, huge corporations can swallow up suddenly available properties at real bargain prices from all the smaller landlords who can’t survive long without tenants. I’m wondering how many of those people who lose their homes will end up in protests. Enough to drive up the stock value of whoever manufacturers tear gas, I guess.

[Zooey]

[Cal]

Zooey wrote:

We are nearing the end of the month, and we are almost to another pivotal crisis moment. I can’t think of anything that has happened since the New Deal that would give me any reason to think that our government is up to the challenge of this moment.

I was thinking about the govt’s response with the current discussion of the next relief bill. And I was impressed.

Giving unemployed people $600 every week on top of at least half of their typical check is impressive. I think WaPo was/is reporting that 20 million Americans were/are receiving these checks.

That’s impressive. And that’s not even accounting for the checks that the gov’t sent everyone making less than 75 grand.

With all this money being sent out I wonder if this eviction thing is even that big of a deal. And how in the world is this sustainable?

“A destructive history, once it is understood as such, is a nearly insupportable burden. Understanding it is a disease of understanding, depleting the sense of efficacy and paralyzing effort, unless it finds healing work.” Wendell Berry

[zn]

Cal wrote:

“A destructive history, once it is understood as such, is a nearly insupportable burden. Understanding it is a disease of understanding, depleting the sense of efficacy and paralyzing effort, unless it finds healing work.” Wendell Berry

That’s a great quotation.

Hope you’re doing well.

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