[badjeans]

> I see all these calls for "cancel rent", as if housing grows on trees and landlords are all some kind of Ebenezer stereotype, instead of being a lot of small-time folk just trying to get by.

So letting property should just be risk-free profit? Being a landlord is a business and businesses fail all the time.

[throwawaycities]

I think the idea is that landlords did accept a risk that if tenants did not pay they would have the legal remedy to evict them.

It was the government that took away their legal remedy without any due process.

Comparing it to any other business, imagine the government coming in and saying you will continue having to operate your business but your customers no longer have to pay.

[josephcsible]

Businesses fail all the time, even though other kinds of businesses aren't required to keep providing products/services to people who stopped paying for them.

[Decker87]

Where did you get that from?