Local Organizers Face Challenges To Meet Outcome of Possible Overturning Of CDC Eviction Moratorium
Jacquie Luqman is joined by Jose Torres, producer with Political Misfits on Sputnik Radio and volunteer organizer with DSA’s Stomp Out Slumlords Campaign to discuss the local impact of the CDC's eviction moratorium possibly being overturned; the difficulties organizing for federal and local housing assistance even before the pandemic that has only been made worse because of it; how landlords are faceless corporate entities that have little vested interest in working with tenants to avoid homelessness; and the disturbing links to The Panama Papers scandal that exists in the real estate market that continues to protect slumlords and absentee landlords even as they turn working families out into the street for higher rents.