'We can’t pass the same cash around to one another on Venmo forever. For the countless among us now unemployed and expected still to give every penny we’ve saved to landlords and taxes and basic utilities, the money is already running out.' –veryhotmomm
“How long has it been for you?” is already a commonplace question among my friends. How long since shelter in place and isolation began, since our workplaces shuttered, since we saw a boy that didn’t live with us, since we became nervous about coronavirus in the news. How long? I lost both my jobs about two weeks ago; I’ve been in self-imposed isolation for almost as long. In less than a week, April rent is due.
Right now, approximately half my income goes to rent, depending on the time of year. I work for tipped wages, meaning I pay my bills with the singles people toss on my bars for their drinks, the dollars they leave if I am lucky or otherwise esteemed on a holistic notion of my “service,” which is not necessarily identical to my labor, for which I deserve payment.
And the brutal fact of it is we’re staring down the barrel end of a coalescence of unprecedented global emergencies. A lot of people in New York City are about to be much poorer, and a lot of people here will be without medical care or shelter — likely more than are already here, in our city’sI’m not writing today because I have incisive, technical knowledge of economic recession patterns or tenants’ rights laws.
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