Moments after Daniris Espinal walked into her new apartment in Brooklyn, she prayed. In ensuing nights, she would awaken and touch the walls for reassurance — finding in them a relief that turned to tears over her morning coffee.
Those walls were possible through a federal program that pays rent for some 60,000 families and individuals fleeing homelessness or domestic violence. Espinal was fleeing both.
Funding is expected to be used up by the end of next year, according to a letter from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and obtained by The Associated Press. That would leave tens of thousands across the country scrambling to pay their rent.
With a congress full of Republicans and utterly spineless democrats, I wouldn’t hold my breath for a renewal of funding. Not to mention Orange Julius Caesar is likely to veto any spending on people who aren’t absurdly wealthy.
Homeless is illegal in the states
Welcome to the rebels
Only illegal for the people suffering. :-\
~60,000 more mortgages are about to foreclosure.
It’s stupid to make so many people have nothing to lose.
The harder the people are pushed down, the bigger the revolution. When it comes it will be bad.
… so 60000 families are going to be unhoused.
They are going to be dehoused.
Most will become unhoused.
These ghouls in office all need to be in jail. forever.
The shit stains in congress do not care about you.
