Last night, the Supreme Court — more precisely, the six Republicans on it, including the three Donald Trump put there — ruled that landlords are now free to evict potentially millions of Americans.

To state the obvious about COVID-19: We are not out of the woods. The Delta variant now surging through the country is driving case counts far above the levels of a year ago.

And it is immoral — not to mention counterproductive — to kick people out onto the streets during an ongoing and worsening public health catastrophe.

What’s even more outrageous is that Congress has allocated funding to help families with back rent, but state bureaucracies are not getting rental assistance to those who need it.

We can fix this, but it will take Congress passing a law, and the clock is ticking.

Tell Congress:

Pass legislation without delay to maintain an eviction moratorium at least until the rental assistance *you already allocated* is made available to those in need.

Add your name.

Thanks for taking action.

For progress,

- Robert Weissman, President of Public Citizen

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