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by danaris 1845 days ago
Then stop acting like the government did this capriciously with no reason. The eviction moratorium was a necessary public health measure.

Now, if you want to say "well, the government should have also enacted a mortgage moratorium, and made the banks the ones who shoulder the financial burden, rather than landlords (whether individual or corporate)," I won't argue with that in the slightest. But given who "the government" was at the time, that would have been an extremely hard sell. (Even now it would be pretty difficult.)