Democratic Lawmakers: Sunia Zaterman, executive director of the nonprofit Council of Large Public Housing Authorities, said there will be a “tsunami” of evictions.

 By Katy O'Donnell

07/31/2021 07:00 AM EDT

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“We’re standing on the beach watching the waves come in,” she said.

Melanie Wang, a national field organizer for Right to the City Alliance, is among the many housing advocates and even Democratic lawmakers who expressed frustration with the last-minute announcement from the White House that the ban would lapse and the situation was out of Biden’s hands.

“Yet again we are on the brink of a flood of evictions that tenants and housing advocates have been warning about for a year and a half now, and it’s been sort of a bungee-jumping experience,” Wang said. “So to have such a lukewarm response from the Biden administration at this point in time is really frustrating.”

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