The CDC’s moratorium on rental-housing evictions, scheduled to expire on June 30, will likely be extended another month. As that deadline approaches, however, we can expect crisis-mongering about housing hardship. Activists have been warning since the start of the Covid pandemic that an “avalanche of evictions” is coming, notwithstanding the tens of billions in federal rental assistance, stimulus payments, and the eviction moratorium, which has been in force since October 2020.
Many progressives argue that the moratorium should be extended “for the duration of the economic crisis,” as New York mayoral candidate Maya Wiley has put it. For the Left, eviction is a dirty word in any circumstance. “Eviction equals Death,” read a placard at a recent tenants’ rights demonstration in Sacramento.
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