The administration of rent relief is excluding undocumented people, those who are unbanked or informally employed, rural households and anyone who faces barriers navigating the application system. Rent relief funds alone cannot resolve the renter crisis aggravated by the pandemicRent relief funds alone cannot resolve the renter crisis aggravated by the pandemic. To truly address the housing crisis, we must limit rents and massively fund social housing that is permanently affordable. This time, we must shift ownership from for-profit corporations to nonprofit community control, including permanently affordable resident cooperatives, community land trusts and public housing. It’s past time to make the practical – and transformative – demand for rent and mortgage cancellation a reality.

Source: The Guardian August 17, 2020 10:18 UTC