This article doesn't present the full story. I have read many stories about small landlords that are having trouble paying the mortgages on their own properties and risk losing their livelihoods. In New York, landlord Shawna Eccles has been forced to live out of her car for weeks because a deadbeat tenant refuses to pay rent.
Shawna is not the only person in that situation. Here's the story of another New York landlord, left homeless after financially-able tenant brazenly exploited the eviction moratorium: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7pbAnaHxXg
This problem is definitely wider than just New York state. Recently a couple in California were barred from moving into their new home by a seller that took their money and exploited the eviction moratorium: https://www.businessinsider.com/california-couple-barred-fro...
While I certainly don't want to see a flood of people that are behind on rent dumped on the streets, the answer can't be to do what New York and California have done either.
EDIT: dear downvoter, why did you downvote me? Are any of the three examples I've supplied false? Or is there some reason that my conclusion does not follow or is otherwise unreasonable?
Shawna is not the only person in that situation. Here's the story of another New York landlord, left homeless after financially-able tenant brazenly exploited the eviction moratorium: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7pbAnaHxXg
This problem is definitely wider than just New York state. Recently a couple in California were barred from moving into their new home by a seller that took their money and exploited the eviction moratorium: https://www.businessinsider.com/california-couple-barred-fro...
While I certainly don't want to see a flood of people that are behind on rent dumped on the streets, the answer can't be to do what New York and California have done either.
EDIT: dear downvoter, why did you downvote me? Are any of the three examples I've supplied false? Or is there some reason that my conclusion does not follow or is otherwise unreasonable?