I’m sure the other 10% of renters will be fine and covid will just skip over those areas 🙄 That said, nothing definite yet but this would still be a significant improvement for millions of people.
Means testing the eviction moratorium is the perfect example of a neoliberal “solution”.
They’ll stall this while pigs work overtime to toss as many people on the street as they can for awhile to appease their petit bourgeois landlord base and then spin this as decisively helping people. Just managing the pressure relief valve.
Watch the number of people getting evicted grow at exactly the rate that police have the capacity to evict them.
(Okay, that’s a doomer-ass take, but if it’s true, it’s actually a great time to organize anti-eviction action, as you’re gumming up police capacity that could be used to evict other people.)
We’ll see for sure when the text comes out, but I agree that this is intentionally tossing 10% of the population into the streets to appease capital, however it’s still a good example of left wing activism working and forcing concessions
edit:nvm read Seinfeld’s response
Right. They spent a couple days thinking about it and realized what they have here is a recipe for Occupy Wall Street 2.0, with a much more radical proletariat and much worse excuses than the original. This was done to preempt riots and the manifestation of an actual, physical, organized resistance. It is better strategy for the owners to bleed people out of their houses then to throw them all out at once. They’re going to keep their hands planted on the valve and release pressure in a controlled manner. Kick out 10% here, 5% there, and periodically crush any urban homeless encampments which might become hotbeds for radical anti-rent action before proceeding to the next batch of evictions.
They didn’t backtrack due to organized resistance, but because organized resistance is an inevitable outcome of the evictions which needs to be carefully managed.
There is no place where people become radicalized faster than the bread lines. The emergence of “Bidenvilles” is legitimately the greatest threat to the empire.
Eh. I agree with Seinfeld. This isn’t really due to any kind of Left activism, we’re pretty effectively contained and in retreat atm.
This is just Biden and Friends realizing what we all did: having a whole bunch of people with nothing to lose be pissed off at the government in the middle of a pandemic and at the height of summer, is probably not good for the health of the bougie state.
“expected”
“planning”
“considering”
uses both hands to vigorously milk a giant invisible cow
How long until we will see “Democrats are better than Republicans you see. You are just a red fash tankie.” from libs and social Democrats?
How long? Where have you been? That’s been a stock lib line since the Iowa primaries at least. Take out the tankie bit and a spiritually similar line has been used by libs since at least Clinton.
When Biden cancelled the Keystone pipeline, there was a 100+ upvoted post in here praising the Democrats. I still see “They are better than the Republicans” comments in here. Had one literally last week. They are literally doing this because it bit them in the ass.
