“Cancel Rent - Even before the pandemic, three in five renters could not come up with $400 in an emergency. How are they supposed to get by now?”
- see https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/cancel-rent/611059/
To take those funds sent to them, designed so that rent could be paid/passed thru to landlords/lenders also trying to stay afloat, and then say, I'm not paying rent anyway, I'm going to party, is morally aberrant. Same as those who say they are refusing to pay a repackaged, sold and resold mortgage instead of calling the servicer and working out a repayment plan. The minute the imposed lockdown ends, those landlords/lenders fully intend to foreclose - as they should. But the same people will start screaming how unfair it is they have to start paying rent again. What a bogus movement, the behavior of which will cause pause when authorities consider future handouts. But I guess that's the end objective of the agitators.