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ATLANTA — Entering the courthouse with a walker, doctor’s note in hand, Dana Williams, 70, who suffers from serious problems downtown, high blood pressure and asthma, pleaded for a halt to the evacuation from her two-bedroom Atlanta apartment.
While sympathetic, the ruling on that state law required him to evict Williams and his 25-year-old daughter De’mai Williams in April because they owed $8,348 in rent and unpaid fees for their $940-a-month apartment.
Since then, they have been in limbo.
They moved into a dilapidated hotel room in Atlanta with water running through the bathroom ceiling, damaged furniture and no refrigerator or microwave. His daughter receives every two weeks from a state company as a nanny for her father.
“I don’t need to be here on his birthday” in August, Williams said. “For his health, it’s just not good. “
Williams’ circle of relatives is among the millions of New York state renters in Las Vegas who have been evicted or face imminent eviction.
After a pause from the COVID-19 pandemic, eviction programs are back in place, driven by emerging rents and a long-standing shortage of affordable housing. Most low-income renters can no longer rely on the pandemic resources that kept them housed, and many are struggling to recover because they haven’t found solid employment or their wages haven’t kept up with the emerging charge of rent, food, and other necessities.
As a result, homelessness is increasing.
“Across the country, low-income contractors are in an even worse scenario than before the pandemic because of points like the large increase in hiring, inflation and other pandemic-era currency difficulties,” said Daniel Grubbs Donovan, a studies specialist at Princeton University. Eviction laboratory.
Eviction requests are 50% higher than the pre-pandemic average in some cities, according to the Eviction Lab, which tracks claims in about 3 dozen cities and 10 states. Landlords register around 3. 6 million cases of eviction per year.
Among the hardest hit are Houston, where rates rose 56 percent in April and 50 percent in May. In Minneapolis/St. Paul, rates are up 106% in March, 55% in April and 63% in May. Nashville 35% higher and Phoenix 33% higher in May; Rhode Island rose 32% in May.
The latest knowledge reflects trends that began last year, with the eviction lab discovering nearly 970,000 evictions filed in the locations it tracks, a 78. 6% increase from 2021, when much of the country was under an eviction moratorium. By December, eviction claims had nearly returned to pre-pandemic levels.
At the same time, rental costs nationwide rose about 5% in a year and 30. 5% above 2019 levels, according to real estate company Zillow. of 7. 3 million housing complexes nationwide.
The federal government, as well as many states and localities, declared pandemic moratoriums that suspended evictions; Most of them are finished. There was also $46. 5 billion in emergency federal hiring assistance that helped tenants pay their rent and funded other protections for tenants. Much of this cash has been spent or appropriated, and requests for additional resources failed to gain traction in Congress. .
Housing courts are filling up and trapping other people like Maria Jackson, 79.
Jackson worked for nearly two decades to build an unwavering clientele as a massage therapist in Las Vegas, which experienced one of the nation’s biggest jumps in deportation cases. This evaporated the lockdown caused by the pandemic in March 2020. His business collapsed; He sold his car and asked for food stamps.
She fell on the $1,083 per month rent for her one-bedroom apartment and, versus $12,489 in back rent, was evicted in March. He moved in with a former consumer about an hour northeast of Las Vegas.
Last month, he discovered a room in Las Vegas for $400 a month, paid for with his monthly Social Security check of $1,241. “I’m one of the lucky ones,” she said. I may be in a tent or a shelter right now. “
In upstate New York, 40 of the state’s 62 counties had more eviction requests in 2022 than before the pandemic, adding two where eviction requests more than doubled since 2019.
Housing advocates had hoped the Democratic-controlled state legislature would pass a bill that required landlords to provide a justification for evicting tenants and restrict rent increases to 3% or 1. 5 times inflation. Lawmakers did not approve it until the end of the legislative consultation this month.
In Texas, as pandemic protections faded, housing costs skyrocketed in Austin, Dallas and elsewhere, resulting in a record 270,000 statewide eviction claims in 2022. Advocates hoped the state legislature could provide relief, directing some of the $32 billion budget surplus toward leasing. . help, but it didn’t happen.
Some anti-pandemic protections have been made permanent and are having an impact. Across the country, two hundred measures have been followed since January 2021, adding tenant legal representation, closure of eviction instances and mediation to instances before they go to court, the National Low Income Housing Coalition said.
These measures are credited with reducing eviction requests in several cities, adding New York and Philadelphia: 41% under pre-pandemic degrees in May for the former and 33% for the latter.
In Hiladelphia, 70% of the more than 5,000 tenants and landlords who participated in the eviction diversion program resolved their cases. The city also allocated $30 million in aid for those with less than $3,000 in the areas and introduced a right to assistance. program, doubling representation rates for tenants.
Hal Dempsey sought to “escape Missouri. ” Arlo Dennis “flees Florida. “Tillison’s circle of relatives “can’t stay in Texas. “
They are part of a new migration of Americans who are uprooting their lives in reaction to a series of laws across the country on the physical care of transgender people.
Missouri, Florida and Texas are among at least 20 states that have limited gender-affirming fitness care parts for trans youth. Key facets of that care for patients of all ages.
More than a quarter of trans adults surveyed through KFF and The Washington Post who were behind last year said they moved to a neighborhood, city or state to be more accepted. additional motivation.
Many target programs that pass trans care legislation, turning those states into sanctuaries. California, for example, passed a law last fall to protect others who receive or offer gender-affirming care from prosecution. And now, California providers are getting more and more calls from others looking to move there to avoid any disruption in their care, said Scott Nass, a state-founded circle of family doctors and transgender care experts.
In Florida, other trans people’s legislative guidance and physical care convinced Arlo Dennis, 35, that it was time to uproot his circle of five relatives from the Orlando area, where they’ve lived for more than a decade. They plan to move to Maryland.
Dennis, who uses the pronouns they, no longer has to receive hormone replacement treatment after Florida’s Medicaid program stopped covering overdue transitional-review care last August because the remedies are experimental and lack evidence of efficacy. Dennis said they ran out of medicine in January.
Moving to Maryland will require resources that Dennis said his circle of relatives didn’t have. They hosted a GoFundMe crusade in April and raised more than $5,600, the maximum of it from foreigners, Dennis said. Now, the circle of relatives, which includes 3 adults and two children, plans to leave Florida in July. Resolution wasn’t easy, Dennis said, but they felt they had no choice.
“I’m okay if my neighbor doesn’t agree with the way I live my life,” Dennis said. “But it literally banned my lifestyle and allowed me to access physical care. “
Mitch and Tiffany Tillison had to leave Texas after the state’s Republicans put anti-trans policies for young people at the center of their legislative agenda. Her 12-year-old daughter became trans about two years ago. Their middle name, Rebecca, will be published because they fear for their protection due to threats of violence against other trans people.
This year, the Texas legislature passed a gender-affirming physical care restriction law for youth under 18. Fitness treatments for trans people.
While the Tillisons declined to specify what treatment, if any, their daughter receives, they said they reserve the right, like her parents, to provide the care their daughter wants, and that Texas has taken that right away from them. That, coupled with the development of threats of violence in their community, especially in the wake of the May 6 mass shooting at the hands of an avowed neo-Nazi at Allen Premium Outlets, about 20 miles from his home in suburban Dallas, led the circle of relatives to move to Washington. State.
“I kept her safe,” Tiffany Tillison said, adding that it dates back to when her daughter approached her during a car trip she had passed long ago after a one-day soccer tournament. “It’s my job to continue to protect her. My love is infinite, unconditional. “
A close call to the loss of key medical care in Missouri has also caused some trans people to reconsider their lives there.
In April, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey issued an emergency rule to limit transition-related surgery and cross-sex hormones for all ages, and limit medications that block puberty. The next day, Dempsey, 24, who uses those pronouns, filed a GoFundMe fundraiser for themselves and their two partners to get out of Springfield, Missouri.
Bailey resigned after the state legislature in May limited new remedies to minors, but not to adults like Dempsey and his partners.
Still, Dempsey said his long stay in Missouri doesn’t look bright. They settled in Moline, Illinois.
Gwendolyn Schwarz, 23, also hoped to stay in her hometown of Springfield, Missouri, where she recently earned a degree in film and media studies from Missouri State University. He had planned to continue his studies in a graduate program at the university and, over the next year, will undergo transition-related surgery, which may take a few months to recover from.
But his plans were replaced when Bailey’s reign sowed concern and confusion. She and an organization of friends plan to move west to Nevada, where state lawmakers have passed a measure requiring Medicaid to cover the gender-affirming remedy for trans patients.
“I don’t need to be trapped and temporarily incapacitated in a state that doesn’t see my humanity,” Schwarz said.
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SUBMERSIBLE IMPLOSIONS
A famous Titanic expert, a world-record-breaking adventurer, two members of one of Pakistan’s richest families and the CEO of the company that led an expedition into the world’s best-known shipwreck all died aboard the submersible Titan when it imploded in the Atlantic Ocean this week. .
The U. S. Coast Guard The U. S. Food and Drug Administration said Thursday there are no survivors after the catastrophic implosion in the rear of the North Atlantic.
The search for the submersible and its occupants, as well as clues to what happened underwater, began Thursday after a deep-sea robot discovered debris near the wreckage of the Titanic.
The Titan reported that it won Sunday night about 435 miles south of St. John’s, Newfoundland, according to Canada’s Joint Rescue Coordination Centre, spurred a desperate rescue effort overseas. 6 a. m. on Thursday.
The Titan expedition drove through OceanGate, making its third voyage to the Titanic, which struck an iceberg and sank in 1912, killing about 700 of the approximately 2200 passengers and crew.
A pilot and 4 other people were on the Titan. Were:
Run to Stockton
Although his background is in aerospace and technology, Rush founded OceanGate Inc. in 2009 to supply manned submersibles to underwater researchers and explorers, according to the company’s website. Rush is the pilot of the Titan, corporate spokesman Andrew Von Kerens said.
The Washington-based private company began bringing tourists to the Titanic in 2021 as part of its efforts to document the shipwreck’s slow deterioration.
“The ocean takes this away and we want to document it before everything disappears or becomes unrecognizable,” Rush told The Associated Press in 2021.
In an interview with CBS News last year, Rush defended the protection of his submersible but said nothing without risk.
“What worries me most are the things that will prevent me from returning to the surface: the overhangs, the fishing nets, the dangers of entanglements,” he said, adding that a smart pilot can run such dangers.
Rush, the world’s youngest jet pilot at age 19 in 1981, flew publicity planes in college, according to his company biography. He joined McDonnell Douglas Corp. in 1984 as a flight check engineer. Over the past 20 years, he has overseen the progression of several successful intellectual property companies.
Greg Stone, a longtime oceanologist and friend of Rush’s, calls him a “true pioneer” in submersible innovation.
“Stockton is a risk taker. It’s smart. HeArray had a vision, it was looking to get things done,” Stone said Tuesday.
Hamish Harding
Harding, a British businessman, lived in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Action Aviation, an aircraft brokerage firm of which Harding served as chairman, said he was one of the project specialists who paid to participate in the expedition.
Harding, a billionaire adventurer who earned 3 Guinness World Records, adding the longest duration to the full intensity of the ocean through a manned ship. In March 2021, he and ocean explorer Victor Vescovo dived into the back of the Mariana Trench. entered the area on Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket.
“Harding’s circle of family and the Action Aviation team are so grateful for all the messages of fear and from our friends and colleagues,” the company said in a statement.
Harding “eager to conduct an investigation” at the Titanic site, said Richard Garriott of Cayeux, president of The Explorers Club, an organization to which Harding belonged.
Shahzada and Suleman Dawood
Father and son, Shahzada and Suleman Dawood belonged to one of Pakistan’s most prominent families. His circle of relatives said in a statement that they were aboard the ship.
His company, Dawood Hercules Corp. in Karachi, is engaged in agriculture, petrochemicals and telecommunications infrastructure.
Shahzada Dawood is also a board member of the California-based SETI Institute that searches for extraterrestrial intelligence. The Dawoods lived in the United Kingdom, according to SETI.
He graduated from the University of Buckingham in the United Kingdom and Philadelphia University (now Thomas Jefferson University) in the United States.
Condolences poured in from Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry, government officials, friends and Pakistanis. Pakistani TV channels interrupted his regime’s broadcasts and shared the news. Salman Sufi, an adviser to Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif, wrote on Twitter: “Very unhappy and unfortunate news. Prayers for the families of the deceased. Mr. Dawood and his circle of family are in our prayers. “
Paul-Henri Nargeolet
Nargeolet, a former French naval officer who considered himself an expert on the Titanic after making several trips to the wreck over several decades.
He served as submarine director for E/M Group and RMS Titanic Inc. , made 37 dives on the wreck and oversaw the recovery of 5,000 artifacts, according to his corporate profile.
He led the expedition on the most technologically complex dive to the Titanic in 2010, which used high-resolution sonar and three-dimensional imagery on the front and rear sections of the Titanic and in the debris field.
While at the French Institute for Research and Exploitation of the Sea, he led the first expedition to the Titanic in 1987.
A day after revelations that the submersible Titan imploded, officials searched the ocean floor for evidence and wrestled Friday with thorny questions about who is investigating the foreign disaster.
An official investigation has not yet been launched because shipping agencies were still searching for the domain where the shipment collapsed, the U. S. Coast Guard said Friday. The initial search and rescue mission.
On Friday, it was not entirely clear who would have the authority to conduct what is sure to be a complex investigation involving several countries. OceanGate Expeditions, which owns and operates the Titan, was founded in Everett, Washington, but the submersible was registered in the Bahamas; the company shut down when the Titan’s debris was discovered. Meanwhile, the Titan’s mothership, the Polar Prince, arrived from Canada, and the other people aboard the submersible arrived from England, Pakistan, France and the United States.
The National Transportation Safety Board said Friday that the U. S. Coast Guard is not working to do so. The U. S. Department of Health said the loss of the submersible was a “major maritime accident” and that the Coast Guard would conduct the investigation. which joined the investigation.
The Coast Guard has not shown it will conduct the investigation. Coast Guard headquarters said the First Coast Guard District in Boston would talk about operations and long-term plans, but did not say when.
Canada’s Transportation Safety Board announced Friday that it will launch an investigation into Prince Polar, sending aid and sending the Titan’s mother. Seventeen team members and another 24 were aboard the Titan’s voyage.
How the overall investigation into the tragedy will be spread out is confusing due to a lack of regulation. The Titan was not registered as a U. S. vessel. Nor was it qualified by a U. S. or foreign safety agency, it was rated through a marine industry organization that sets criteria on issues such as hull structure.
Bob Ballard, a member of the study team that discovered the Titanic’s sinking in 1985, called the lack of certification through outside experts “irrefutable evidence” in the Titan’s implosion.
“We’ve done thousands and thousands and thousands of dives. . . to the depths of one and we’ve never had an incident,” he told ABC’s “Good Morning America. “
The unprecedented payload of the missing submersible will easily amount to millions of dollars, experts said Friday. agencies and personal entities.
Some agencies may request reimbursements, but the U. S. Coast Guard may request reimbursements. U. S. citizens, whose bill alone will amount to millions of dollars, are prohibited by federal law from collecting reimbursement for any search or rescue services, said Stephen Koerting, a Maine federal prosecutor who specializes in maritime law.
“The Coast Guard, as a matter of law and policy, does not seek the prices related to search and rescue for recipients of those services,” the Coast Guard said Friday.
The great foreign effort of planes, surface ships and deep-sea robots began Sunday when the Titan disappeared. Researchers raced against a 96-hour clock in the desperate hope of locating and rescuing the ship’s occupants before their oxygen source ran out.
All hope was extinguished Thursday when officials announced that the submersible had suffered a catastrophic implosion that killed the other five people on board: OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, who was piloting the Titan when it imploded; two members of a prominent Pakistani family, Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman; British adventurer Hamish Harding and Titanic expert Paul-Henri Nargeolet.
A reduced search remained in position Friday as robots, remotely operated vehicles, or ROVs, continued to scan the seabed for evidence that could shed light on what happened.
One question that is at least partially resolved is when the implosion likely occurred. After the Titan disappeared on Sunday, the Navy returned and analyzed its acoustic knowledge and discovered an “anomaly” consistent with an implosion or explosion in the general vicinity of where the shipment was operating when communications were lost, a senior U. S. Navy official said. The U. S. Department of Justice, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Trials are expected, but filing them will be complex. The plaintiffs will face the challenge of jurisdiction, said Steve Flynn, a retired Coast Guard officer and director of Northeastern University’s Global Resilience Institute. land,” Flynn said.
At least 46 other people actually traveled on the OceanGate submersible to the site of the Titanic’s sinking in 2021 and 2022, according to letters the company filed with the U. S. District Court. The U. S. Department of Homeland Security in Norfolk, Virginia, is overseeing cases related to the sinking of the Titanic.
A former corporate worker and former passengers asked about the submersible’s protection.
James Cameron, who directed the hit film “Titanic” and made several dives into the wreckage of the iconic ship, told the BBC he learned an “extreme catastrophic event” occurred as soon as he heard the submersible lost navigation and communications at the same time. “For me, there’s no question,” he said.
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