Congresswoman Cori Bush introduced legislation earlier this week that seeks to expand access to federal emergency rental assistance (ERA) money, a proposal that could ramp up the distribution of critical funding at a time when many states — including Georgia — are lagging.
The move by the Missouri Democrat comes in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to kill a federal eviction moratorium that had served as the most powerful protection many Americans financially throttled by the pandemic had against displacement.
