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Emergency Housing Protections and Relief Act of 2020

Floor Speech

Date: June 29, 2020
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Government Operations Health and Health Care Housing and Property

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Mr. ESPAILLAT. Mr. Speaker, I thank Chairwoman Waters for her steadfast support of tenants. With close to 130,000 deaths that are COVID-19 related, 40 million unemployed, these are difficult times.

But now we are facing a housing tsunami as millions of families go to sleep every night afraid and anxious of where they are going to get their rent money. The rent is too damn high.

That is why Congressman Chuy Garcia and I introduced the STAY HOME Act of 2020 that provides billions of dollars of financial support for renters. This is a good bill that will provide $100 billion for renters, people who really don't know where they are getting their money to pay their rent. They want to keep a roof over their head. They don't want to be homeless. This is a critical time in America, and this bill will produce the moneys that we need to ensure that people are not homeless.

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