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EDIT: I forgot the eviction moratorium was done at the national level for low income housing and that it was the Supreme Court actually ruled against it, effectively ending it. Anyway yeah, get ready for stuff to be so horrendous so quickly that it's easy to forget because there's just such a fucking flood of it. I reiterate my original point that when the moratorium was over the right wing judges, prosecutors, and cops were so excited to get back to kicking people into the streets.

https://nlihc.org/coronavirus-and-housing-homelessness/national-eviction-moratorium

The Supreme Court ruled on August 26 to end the temporary stay on a lower court ruling seeking to overturn the federal eviction moratorium issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In doing so, the Supreme Court’s ruling invalidates the federal eviction moratorium, eliminating vital eviction protections that have kept millions of households – predominantly people of color – stably housed.

The federal eviction moratorium was a lifeline for millions of families, the last remaining federal protection keeping many safely and stably housed during the pandemic. The tragic, consequential, and entirely avoidable outcome of this ruling could be millions of people losing their homes this fall and winter, just as the delta variant ravages communities and lives.

EDIT II: I originaly jumped in just to say it since people seemed incredulous already, but there's a couple quotes from the article that directly reference the end of the eviction moratorium as a reason for increased homelessness.

Since the sunsetting of these resources and the ending of the eviction moratorium, our CoC has seen a large influx of new families and individuals seeking emergency shelter assistance.

The rise in unsheltered numbers can be attributed to several pivotal developments. The end of the eviction moratorium played a significant role, as many individuals who had been protected under pandemic-era policies suddenly faced eviction proceedings. With the legal system resuming operations, those who were delayed in court processes found themselves without housing. Economic pressures have also escalated the situation, particularly the unprecedented spikes in rental prices. . . . This surge in housing costs has pushed many out of affordability.

But for the other New York CoCs mentioned in the report, the increase in homelessness wasn’t due to immigration, but to “increased evictions as cities worked through backlogs in evictions that built up during the eviction moratorium, lack of affordable housing, and increased rents . . . as well as loss of rapid re-housing supported by ESG-CV and other COVID-related funding.” (ESG-CV refers to Emergency Solutions Grant–COVID-19, a $4 billion homeless prevention and response program passed as part of the CARES Act of 2020.)

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People might forget but a lot of places instituted controls to prevent people from being evicted during these time periods, and then when the "pandemic was over" those programs were quickly shuttered and it left a lot of people now stuck thousands of dollars in debt with no way to pay and on their way to eviction.

If I recall correctly pretty much all the west coast states did this.

So it wasn't even just assistance but the fact that certain laws were put in place to actually prevent people from slipping into homelessness during this period. Obviously once that is scrapped and people who got assistance but still fell behind aren't in a position to pay up, you're gonna have evictions.

And oh man, some Republicans in those areas had a real hardon for those evictions after being blocked from them for so long. Certain Sheriffs and judges were practically salivating at the idea.