neighborhoods, studying the impact of eviction and, what changed in the four years? >> what the pandemic has done is make it wrs. 10 million people have lost their jobs. rents have continued and we are seeing millions of people really at the threat of eviction, in a time where your home is your best medicine, your home is what prevent you from getting sick. >> covid has already had a devastating economic impact. one in four american households have experienced job loss or diminished income. black and latino families are taking a disproportion nate hit. >> i'm panning around to show you that we are going to be put out of the rental property. >> the garbage bags and boxes with most of her worldly possessions are about to join

margaret eddie and her husband john on the street in hampton virginia. >> can you please just share it to your friends. >> if anyone in the vast social media audience was listening, they didn't respond. when i spoke to margaret, the eddies were living out of their car, whether permitting they will eat in a public park. there are no designated bathrooms for the homeless. the eddies use the facilities in a chain gas station convenience store. john's hours driving a tractor trailer hauling trash have been cut way back. what is the most difficult thing about not having a home? >> worried about am i going to catch covid, for one. and also, waking up in the mornings and realizing that i'm not in my room.

and that i have to ride around all day to find places to go to shelter. >> so, everything you have got in the world is in that car, is that right? >> yeah, everything that we have and then we have like some of our stuff in storage. but, yeah, i'm basically, our life is this our vehicle. >> what are you go background to do when it starts getting cold? >> -- what are you going to do when it starts getting cold? >> i don't know. it was cold last night. >> if you take that one situation, and that one family and multiply it by millions, the country will be in a lot of pain if we don't address this crisis. >> early last september, the centers for disease control citing increased health risks from eviction during the covid pandemic, issued an eviction moratorium through december 31st, for people who can't make their rent. while protecting some, perhaps

even most renters from eviction, it still requires the payment of all that back rent on january 1st. and provides no rent relief. the order averted a wave of evictim evictions but it's a band-ate, jennifer pearson is separated and lives in the house with her three children. last march, she lost her job working in a fast food restaurant. since the summer, she works a part time job as a cashier in a grocery store. it pays roughly $225 a week. >> your monthly rent is how much? >> 1,050. >> whoa. we got permission from the local library in virginia to use their wifi connection for this interview. so even if you handed over your entire paycheck, that would not

cover your rent for a month. >> not all the way, no and that's why i am looking for the second job. >> in theory, jennifer and her kids are protected against eviction by that cdc order, but there are loopholes. in september, jennifer's landlord filed for eviction. not only am i facing the eviction for nonpayment, he is also piled on what he calls violations that i have to fix, which i already have. >> i don't want to make your landlord out to be some kind of a villain, i mean, a landlord has, or land lady has a right to be paid. >> oh, i agree with you absolutely. it's a business, and you know, in any business, you have to pay for what you are getting. >> rick brown is not jennifer pearson's landlord. he does own eight similar properties in winchester, virginia. mainly single family homes in roughly the same price range as

jennifer's. he tries to maintain those homes himself. he says half of his tenants are not paying the rent now. >> i understand that we cannot go to court and evict people for nonpayment of rent. >> you understand it's a moratori moratorium, they are not eliminating the rent. on january 1st, that tenant still owes you every nickel that they owed you before. >> i understand that, but i'm struggling to pay my bills. i'm treading water, it's a tough deal right now, for landlords, and it will eventually get paid. we may not get paid. we need to get somebody in that can pay the rents and keep the banks from wanting to for close on it, because the banks need to get paid and it can damage landlords credit lines as well. >> brown is part of a lawsuit challenging the legitimacy of that cdc eviction moratorium.

>> this is my retirement, ted, it's my livelihood, and i'm not a cold hearted person. if i don't have the money, i have other tenants that their houses will be at risk too. it's a domino affect. >> people are not getting evicted because they are irresponsible, they are getting evicted because it's almost inevitable. >> winnie dicerson would meet most people's definition of a good tenant. she and her family had lived in the same townhouse for 13 years. college graduate, going for a masters degree, she worked as a drug counselor, earning $50,000 a year. until the facility closed because of the pandemic. and for the first time in her life, she said, she faced eviction. >> i have also worked for the past 15 years with the homeless activities center in

harrisonburg, the thought of being homeless and in the line with the people i have been serving was overwhelming. >> winnie also has multiple sclerosis. >> being someone with a underlying condition like ms, my system is compromised. >> were they the threatening to evict you? >> oh, yes, i have the eviction letter. yeah. >> winnie dicerson has her pride, so, she is with drew all of her savings and moved before she could be evicted. eventually she found a job working with the mentally ill. >> so, i am making, not what i was making before, but i'm making nice money. >> tell me about the place you are in right now? >> so i'm paying way more than i was paying before. >> so maybe you should have stayed where you were? >> nah. >> nah, why? >> it was a pandemic. i have multiple sclerosis and

you were okay with putting me out. so that tells me you don't care about my life. i think that is what is missing out of america right now is compassion for our brother. we are our brother's keeper. we bailed out wall street, we can bail out the airline industry because of covid, what about giving the money to landlords to help the tenants so they don't have to pay back money. >> there's a moral cost to being the most resourced richest country on the plan estimate, that chooses to -- planet, that chooses to see potentially millions families lose their home january 1st. we can the do better than that as a country. we should. >> ted koppel reporting. you are watching the

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high schoolers getting an f has more than doubled. 42% of students failed this fall. a normal year is 11%. how hard is it to watch as a parent, you know, to see this slide? >> well, it was very difficult. because, i know he is capable of more. >> hm-mm. >> and i know under the right circumstances, he would be fine. >> the educational slide expert sas impacting minority, low income and rural children pro foundly, widening gaps that existed before the pandemic. >> so we worry there could be inequalities that we are not seeing yet with the data. whether it's technology limitations or they have fully disengaged from school. for greta, it's heartbreaking. >> you know, it's a challenge. it's a battle every day. >> the failure rate of her 160 high school english students is kai rocketing. >> last year, i may have had, maybe four or five kids per class failing. this year, it was probably

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battling anaplastic, a rare brain cancer, last month, doctors recommended hospice care. ♪ >> she has been document thing her journey on social media, where she caught the attention of big names like p-diddy, off-set and cardi-b, her favorite artist, beyonce sent her flowers in september. >> oh, thanks for partying with me. >> this past sunday, lyric was the star of a 16 hour virtual block party, organized by dj e-feezy. >> that included djs from across the country. >> can i see smiles in the comments. >> we doing this for lyric. >> club quarantine creator d-nice attended. >> this poor young girl has been fighting brain cancer, four brain surgeries, pour of them. >> wrap er tre-the truth met

lyric this past fall, he learned about her story through instagram and has been by her side, helping the family and trying to keep lyric motivated. >> when it comes to lyric, everything that she goes through, she instantly lights she is a comedian at heart. >> we checked in with her. >> what does it tell you about humanity? >> that people have a heart. they care, they are paying attention. you know, andyric hasas a really, she has a really good spirit. ♪ >> and she has a fighting spirit. refusing to give up. new york. keep up the pulling for you.

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