'This is a national trend. Rents are going up, the cost of living is going up, and the federal government is not stepping in to do anything about it.'
"Evictions fell at the onset of the pandemic," the Eviction Lab reports,"but increased in the latter months of 2020." That trend has continued.
The upshot, Kumar continues, is a predictable rise in homelessness, something that even the normally staid Government Accountability Office has flagged. Indeed, a 2020 GAOnotes that whenever there's a $100 increase in the median rent, a whopping 9 percent increase in homelessness follows. Still, Saadian continues, even if millions of affordable apartments and rent vouchers magically became available, at the core of the crisis there's a"fundamental power imbalance between landlords and renters." This, she says, needs to be disrupted so that robust tenant protections can be enacted and enforced.
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