Tell your Senators - Pass a Moratorium on Evictions for those who lost their jobs during the pandemic
Senator Dianne Feinstein
SF Office: (415) 393-0707
DC Office: (202) 224-3841
LA Office: (310) 914-7300
Fresno Office: (559) 485-7430
San Diego Office: (619) 231-9712
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Senator Kamala Harris
SF Office: (415) 981-9369
DC Office: (202) 224-3553
Sacramento Office: (916) 448-2787
LA Office: (213) 894-5000
San Diego Office: (619) 239-3884
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Call Script
My name is __________. I am a constituent, and my zip code is _______. I am a member of Indivisible SF.
I’m calling to ask the Senator to pass the HEROES act and specifically to enact the following:
A national moratorium on evictions and reasonable catch up rent pay plans for those who lost their jobs or income during the pandemic.
Emergency Health Care Guarantee.
$2000 emergency payments to every working class American.
And to extend the $600 a week increase in unemployment benefits.
Background
The CARES Act provided a temporary moratorium on evictions for most residents of federally-subsidized apartments, including those supported by HUD, USDA or Treasury (Low Income Housing Tax Credit developments) and also a moratorium on filings for evictions for renters in homes and apartments covered by federally-backed (FHA, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac) mortgages for 120 days after enactment.
Now that 120 day moratorium is almost over and victions are about to skyrocket thanks to our federal government failure to contain and respond to coronavirus. As is the case with infections, deaths and job losses, people of color will be hit the hardest. In addition to the federal CARES Act moratorium, local eviction moratoria across the country are also expiring. And unless Congress steps in, the federal unemployment benefits will also run out at the end of July. Twenty percent of the 110 million Americans in rental households including a disproportionate number of people of color are at risk of eviction by the end of September. Few, if any, of them will have the financial means to obtain a new home, so many of them will become homeless on the streets.