The Mothers Facing Eviction During COVID

This is my daughter's room, this is the room that my son and I share, we sleep together, it's not that big, but it's our house. I was able to pay it before the pandemic since the pandemic started. I have had three owners and three 60 days.

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notices my first landlord

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was June 30, 2020. my second landlord was September 28, 2020 and yesterday's 60 day eviction notice I'm supposed to leave now April 10 patricia mendoza is a of the more than 30 million Americans who have been at risk of eviction in the country's most serious housing crisis since the Great Depression, according to the National Low Income Housing Coalition Mendoza, who is a single mother, has lived in his apartment for almost four years and says that before kovid he always paid his rent on time, he makes double plates.

She was working for a non-emergency medical transportation company. She took disabled patients to her doctor's appointments. April 5th was the day I was laid off, so it was tough. You see you're in class, except good morning you have my name. I have no savings to fall back on I filed for unemployment unemployment didn't come until June I hadn't paid rent for April, May or June, not only am I scared of being evicted, I'm scared of the debt that's been overdue since you I'm on vacation right now I'm going to owe six thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dollars that I don't know where they're going to come from.

I've had seven asthma attacks since March and I know it's because of the anxiety and stress we like. almond breeze, huh, but then we have to eat normal milk when we are low on funds. I can't just go out and find another job. I can't work on the front line because what if I get sick, who will take care of it? My children, working

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, have had an especially difficult time during the pandemic. The service sector, which includes restaurants, hotels and beauty salons, employs about 43 percent of all women, but only about 25 percent of all men. The industry has been hit hard by the closures.

This is my 15th notice of the day to pay rent or move out he just tapes it to the door I have applied to several companies with no response you have to cross your fingers and wait while you watch the bills continue to pile up kelly lloyd acosta has been out of work since the pandemic began she had several jobs in the service sector while earning her law degree this is a microscope she now spends her time helping her children while they learn from home got my real estate license and had not yet sold a house when the pandemic ended After all, I thought it would be more viable and as a stylist that thing went through the roof, that's over and over again, last fall a survey found that one in two working

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say they are providing education and care children exclusively. support for her children compared to only one in ten parents.

I would love a job that pays well from home and doesn't get upset if her kids show up. There is a federal moratorium on evictions until the end of March and California also has its own. current moratorium that has been extended through June the eviction moratorium is set out in your current local state and federal ordinances that make it illegal to kick someone out of your place for nonpayment of rent, but landlords can still send eviction notices and it depends of tenants request protections monthly. Any misstep means a tenant could lose her house, so the landlords are the ones who are supposed to give her this paper and this is the declaration of financial hardship related to Covet 19.

I sign it. I go to the post office I make a copy I send you a copy and I keep my copy It's just a nervousness A coveted multi-billion dollar relief bill passed in California but it comes with some catches The state is only willing to pay 80 percent of unpaid rent means landlords miss out on the last 20, so they pressured the legislature to choose whether or not they want to accept that money on behalf of their tenants and that could set a precedent for other states where they are leaving Everything is in the hands of the owners if they want to accept it or if they don't and what about people like me, they are going to evict me and I also have a debt that I will probably never be able to pay.

Mendoza and Lloyd Acosta say their landlords have not applied for relief funds, leaving them at risk of eviction and will have to figure out how to pay back rent when the moratorium ends. If I get evicted, my kids and I would live in my car. transmission of life if you get kicked out of your house it's a pandemic and your house has your masks and if you get kicked out of your house how do you get your masks this is my kids safe haven my 17 year old daughter can I talk more to her about the situation the little one had a panic attack he is telling me mom where are we going to live where are we going to go and we are not going anywhere there is nowhere to go there are many people who don't know that there are rights for tenants, Don't forget why we are here today, if people ask you, you can give them a flyer.

You know, let's work together and make this day better for everyone. I've been with Ace, which is the alliance of Californians for community empowerment, I want to put one right there, look one, put one down there, yeah, you know, there's a lot of people who don't know the Internet, there's a lot of people who don't know how to get online. on the zoom call patricia's story It's like there are many, it's just one version of what we are seeing. You know a lot of people are going to benefit from this rent relief and I appreciate that because that's what we've been fighting for.

I've been going through this for a whole year. Three owners. Three eviction notices. This is the most recent one from yesterday. I am right now. I really want to fight to stop all evictions. No gaps. Do you know why I fight so hard? put my story out there because no family should be going through this, none of us, not right now, not during a pandemic, where are we going to go? Thanks, Mendoza's situation is more common than you think. Leading research has found that moms have to do it. Taking on more responsibilities at home, which makes it harder to return to the workforce and comes at a great cost.

My name is remath amaro. I am a professor at the University of Arkansas. I am also an adjunct economist at the University of Southern California. I have been studying how women have been affected compared to men during this upcoming '19 crisis. My favorite type of chocolate is the one from tongue, which is warm, which has a homemade cream with watercolors. Yes, I'm a mom too. I am in a privileged position. where I have a job that is very flexible, schools are open here so that's another privilege in March, schools close unfortunately. I was also trying to figure out how to teach online for my students in college.

Do you want to find someone to wear my mask? I went because I'm eating exactly my parents were copied during that time everything happened to me at the same time and actually this research emerged as a way to heal as a researcher. I'm wondering if I can look at the data and see how other moms are doing. and the more I look, the more I see that my situation is not unique. Many working mothers, suffering mothers, women with children, have experienced the highest levels of psychological distress during this crisis. We see a big increase that appeared in April.

Women face a lot. more challenges than in other economic crises, so, on the one hand, the crisis has affected economic sectors that are different. This crisis has affected the service sector the most, such as restaurants, hotels, where more women work, while previous crises such as the major recession of 2008 affected more manufacturing work. that was more dominated by men, so we're seeing women lose a lot more jobs than men and then on the other hand, the pandemic brought all these social distancing rules and we have to be very careful with school closures associated with this and which have affected working women with Children are much more difficult.

I need a bigger bike. They also fulfill that function of caring for children and that has helped women in recent decades to be able to enter the workforce in greater numbers. Do not go crazy. Doing this research really helped. I realize that I'm not the only one, I'm not alone and that's the hope with my work, that there is a better understanding of the challenges that women face so that we can make it more normal.