Covid-19 makes the poor have no place to live. Matthew Desmond (2020) told a very real thing, that is, Mr. Loaiza was given a few days to move out because he couldn’t pay the rent. Matthew Desmond (2020) points out Mr. Loaiza’s economic and living conditions, “ Sensing that his family wouldn’t be able to make the next month’s rent, Mr. Loaiza applied for emergency assistance and called the city’s Neighborhood and Housing Services Department so frequently that the operators got to know him by name.” Then he went on to tell about Mr. Loaiza’s road to get help, “Mr. Loaiza pushed through it, the pull to sleep, to bury himself, and with the rent assistance seemingly stalled, he began calling friends in San Antonio, asking if they would consider taking his family in. No one had room. Finally, friends in Florida offered two rooms in their home and storage space in their garage.” This is great for Mr. Loaiza to have a place to live with the help of friends. But what is worth thinking about is that if it is a new immigrant who goes to an unfamiliar country alone and has no known relatives around, they will have nowhere to go and will be under tremendous mental pressure.
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