It is hard to tell what is really going on, and “our media” will refuse to look.
My opinion?
People (renters) started with just the knowledge they couldn’t be evicted for missing or leaying a payment. Then, as the months progressed, and they realized that they they really could NOT BE EVICTED for any reason, no matter how little they paid, they just stopped paying rent at all.
Then, that word for around, and 10s of thousands more realized the same thing, and millions stopped paying rent.
And the democrats applauded every failure.
Theoretically, all these people who stopped paying rent, but who have jobs and have the money, will pay up and get their back rent caught up. Theoretically, that should happen at some point.
Do they have the money? Assuming they were still working, didn’t they save the money, and put rent money aside, so they could pay rent again someday? Did they spend the money foolishly and just don’t have the cash anymore?