[KozmoNau7]

You should sit down and calculate the absolutely disastrous consequences for the economy if you put millions of (jobless) people on the streets, during a massive epidemic.

The rise in property values alone over the last 10+ years should have been more than plenty to cover any landlord's expenses due to the moratorium. They did not plan for the bad times, too bad for them. They had the means to mitigate by preparing, renters living paycheck to paycheck have no such possibility, so the government did its job for once and helped out the under-privileged.

So the landlords can just sell some of their properties, downsize and scale back until better times. They gambled on stability and lost.

[Ekaros]

Why don't renters have to take reasonable responsibility during pandemic? That is have enough funds on hand to cover their living cost in any situation? Being jobless is no excuse as they could have lived cheaper and saved more previously. Maybe by being homeless for a few years or decades.

[KozmoNau7]

I will admit that you had me for a minute there. Pretty solid impression of a ghoulish libertarian.