About 7.9 million people reported they were not caught up on rent in the most recent Census Bureau survey, conducted in late July and early August. | Elise Amendola/AP Photo
08/27/2021 01:38 PM EDT
Updated: 08/27/2021 04:23 PM EDT
Democratic lawmakers and the White House scrambled Friday to shore up safeguards for millions of tenants facing a housing crisis after the Supreme Court blocked an eviction ban imposed by the Biden administration.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the House was considering "possible legislative remedies" as more than 60 House Democrats demanded that she and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer work to revive the national eviction moratorium.
Top Biden officials also mobilized to try to contain the fallout, with three Cabinet secretaries urging state and local officials to enact their own bans and pause eviction proceedings in court while governors and mayors work to distribute billions of dollars in languishing rental assistance.
“Congressional Democrats have not and will not ever accept a situation of mass evictions," Pelosi said in a statement, adding that the high court decision was "arbitrary and cruel."
Thursday night's Supreme Court ruling blocking the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's eviction ban thrust the issue back on to Congress's to-do list, though it appeared unlikely that lawmakers would be able to rally support to enact new protections. The Biden administration imposed the moratorium earlier this month —...
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