PHASE 2, SLEEPING ROUGHLY: AN EVICTED RENTPAYER HOLLERS

 Readers! It may have been brought to your notice that for a period of some weeks, I have not made entry into this web-log. I think my story re eviction has largely been told, and thus with MY story all that would remain might be a few details, perhaps closely-connected-in-mind as to be fairly redundant: I esteem THIS PART of my concerns about eviction, particularly unfair eviction, has been sufficiently-told.

BUT! There is another concern atop the tale of woe which was mine (kicked out having paid rent, with no WHY given); this would be the bigger fact that the Eviction Moratorium has been ended by the Supreme Court of the United States.  THERE ARE MANY MORE PEOPLE ABOUT WHO DID NOT PAY THE RENT

AS I DID

AND WHO IN SHORTER TIME WILL 'HIT THE STREETS' AS I HAVE DONE.

I am motivated now to play "advocate": as a student (Donovan Scholar at U of Louisville, senior citizen who can take classes free of tuition) I can tap the deep resources of my college to peruse and distribute URLs and PDFs germane to the topic of being evicted. While being evicted is a BIG DEAL, I do think that it is POOR morals to evict a long-time rentpayer without giving a reason-- a reason which may be as was for me-- quickly remedy-able.

At any rate, soon thousands of people in USA will be 'on the streets' as I put it. I predict that by winter coming, we will see the first horde becoming homeless; recently I did a cipher to CONSERVATIVELY estimate that about 9000 folks here in Louisville will be homelessly evicted, far beyond the bed-space capacity in shelters and yes a calamity for city leaders who want fewer, not hosts more, "campers" at overpasses and under bridges here in town. . . but I esteem this willl happen despite good intentions from good and humane civic guides.

I do not see this as a sad-situation-only for the evicted; more to the point my advocacy will be aimed at the get-more-money motivation of Landlords and property developers who 1. want to raise rent beyond what the main populace in this capital-poor city can rightfully afford, as say 50% of the renter's income which in turn means less-eating for selves and children, a strain at getting medicals, and a continuation of dire poverty; 2. eviction for any reason but CHRONIC delinquency in paying rent, and even then with some  concession, as like unto the condition when the feds or state declare eminent domain and make 'relocation adjustment funds' available, a condition ALMOST OR QUASI what exists when the City of Louisville 'cuts deals' acknowledging the equity of homeless 'campers' now, who get 21 days for re-location and re-adjustment to eminent-domain-ilk ejections from public property.

I am no PolyAnna! I think that what I envision about evictions and homelessness OUGHT to be done, with no illusions that the utterly-capitalist complex of Louisville/Kentucky landlords will make these concessions without a to-draw-blood-fight. Yet abiding and in residue, I still have some freedom-of-speech and freedom-of-thought: I also have means, motive, opportunity to make such expression of thought, anticipating that here MONEY TALKS MONEY SWEARS and there will be strong effort somewhere like everywhere to ignore this set of utterances coming BUT I SHALL KEEP ON KEEPING ON IN THIS STATED REGARD, I SHALL NOT BE DETERRED FROM SAYING-WHAT-I-THINK-IS-RIGHT-AND-IS-TIMELY.