Currently, if a renter has filled out and given their landlord this CDC Declaration, they are protected from being evicted through 12/31/20. However, if Congress doesn’t come up with a comprehensive COVID-19 relief bill, millions of people are going to suffer in the new year - and many of them are our neighbors.

Two Simple Ways to Take Action:

1. Use the National Alliance to End Homlessness online action to contact your members of Congress. Ask them to include a) $100 billion in rental assistance so that low-income tenants are not forced into homelessness and b) $26 billion in sunsetting housing vouchers to permanently house the most vulnerable people experiencing homelessness in the next COVID-19 relief package. Make sure to personalize your message!

2. Visit the RESULTS Action Center and click "Take Action: Elections are over but COVID crisis is not" to contact your members of Congress. Request that they act now to pass a COVID-19 relief bill that includes $100 billion for emergency rental assistance and an eviction moratorium, and at least $20 billion in international development assistance.

    

Let your elected officials know that you stand in solidarity with those experiencing homelessness, housing instability, or at risk of death from treatable and preventable diseases. Tell Congress commit a portion of our nation’s vast resources to protect low-income renters, the homeless, and those threatned with preventable diseases in a time of global pandemic.

People experiencing homelessness are already in far more dire circumstances than our unstably housed neighbors, and as many programs (including Thursday Outreach and our counterpart down the street, UPLift) have had to stop serving them for safety reasons. 

Globally, resources normally allocated to treat and prevent infectious diseases like AIDS, TB, and malaria, or leading childhood killers like malnutrition, pneumonia, and diarrhea have been diverted to address COVID-19. As a result, we are seeing secondary pandemic of poverty, hunger, and sickness caused by COVID-19 around the world.

Learn more on our Housing Plaza, from RESULTS, or from the National Alliance to End Homelessness. They empower you with clear statistics - please remember that each number represents a person - people that our parish Outreach, St, Vincent de Paul Society, Gabriel Project, and Micah 6 volunteers know by name. 

December 31st looms. Please act now!