For the second time, activists ask for forgiveness of payment to those who have to "choose between paying rent or food"
More than 200 tenants and apartment owners from The Angels this Thursday they urged the government of Donald trump and to the local authorities that issue an order to forgive the rent or mortgage debt to those tenants who have to "choose between paying rent or food"
"Food yes. Income no"Is in fact the motto of the call"rent strike”Which was convened this Thursday for the second time in the city, after the success of the first demonstration on April 1.
The objective of this movement is that the authorities at the local, state and national regulations to forgive the payment of rents or mortgages to people who are at risk of exclusion, a situation that has grown in the midst of the coronavirus crisis due to alarming unemployment numbers.
"We are here to demand and sue our government representatives to pay off rent and mortgages. (…) That they give financial aid to all people regardless of their immigration status: all people now occupy money"A protester named Carlos, who did not want to reveal his last name, told the Efe agency in statements.
According to data from the Union of Neighbors, less than half of the residents of the los angeles county still employed full time by the crisis of coronavirus.
For this reason, their representatives consider that without the cancellation of housing payments, tenants "are vulnerable to demands to return to work in an insecure environment, risking their lives and violating orders to stay home"
Until now, the Los Angeles City Hall has approved a moratorium on rent payments until the end of the crisis.
