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To: Congress
Temporary Stay on Mortgage and Rent Obligation
Create a nationwide pause on mortgages for owners and rent for renters while we get through this together. Mortgage accounts across the board must be frozen without interest or penalty so that owners and landlords can chose to pause rents for renters. Residential and commercial renters in turn are freed from any and all obligation to pay rent. And back rent cannot be accrued. We call for an unprecedented, but necessary freezing of accounts.
Why is this important?
Tens of millions of people now face the choice between rent or food. Working class poor people who become unemployed do not and will not in the future have money for rent and back rent. What small resources they have must be freed for food purchases to both protect them from starvation and also to protect the food supply chain. This will also create solidarity, as we temporarily offer aid to landlords by freeing them from their mortgage obligations and we free the renting class from the facing a choice between starvation or later evictions. We must begin to help each other in ways we haven't thought of before by chosing to protect collective interests over the interests of individual groups. This is a matter of survival and maintaining civil society.