COVID crisis underscores need for ‘fundamental’ US housing reform

Millions are at risk of eviction when a federal moratorium expires, but it will take more than the next round of stimulus aid to solve a housing crisis that hits Americans of colour the hardest.

Louisville, Kentucky, the United States — Cheri Nicholson got teary-eyed. She could only think about where she and her husband, who lives with a disability, would go. It was January 27. Nicholson, 64, had logged on to Zoom for her eviction hearing, but she’d been given the wrong access number. Though she phoned the district court clerk’s office and got the right number, it was too late. The judge had ruled. She had seven days to leave her Louisville, Kentucky house. “The only thing you can think is you’re going to be one of those people who have to live under a bridge,” Nicholson told Al Jazeera.