Re:Eviction notice downloads soar after federal moratorium ends
by alistairSH on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @03:17PM
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No, the US didn't have the manpower for manual review. Further complicated by our federal system, with most social programs run at the state level. Even more complicated by a decades long effort by conservatives to make state/local programs difficult to use because everybody should just pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
The closest we could come was the stimulus checks that went to anybody with a prior-year's income below a certain threshold (IRS has that info).
The question is, did the government have the manpower to do a case-by-case assessment. One of the issues faced in Canada was getting employment insurance money out to people in a timely manner. Their approach was very much loosen the criteria and take claims at near face value until they had time to sort things out. Fortunately, the government can sort-of do that in that scenario. Unfortunately for evictions, things have to be sorted out before a person ends up homeless.
As for "f*ck landlords", I never quite understood it. Then again, I've always dealt with small landlords and usually had some form of reference for them before signing the lease.