paying other peoples rent is NOT my problem.
I kept my bills paid..
I am left wondering.. why? government seems to always come to the rescue of the lazy.
Yep. We COULD have done a LOT of things differently these past 2 years, but what do I know? ;)
FWIW, ‘solutions’ from the article:
First, software problems. Nearly a decade on from the healthcare.gov debacle, most institutions of government remain unacceptably behind the times in all matters related to computers. Tenants and social workers have described challenges navigating cumbersome, glitchy online portals.
Second, application design. Long and complicated applications for rent assistance apparently discouraged many tenants in need, especially immigrants without documents. In a January survey of 2020 rent relief programs, the National Low Income Housing Center identified this as a problem—nearly half of surveyed programs required social security numbers, for example. Eighty percent of programs said incomplete applications made it hard to hand out cash.
Third, landlords. Specifically, the money is supposed to go to landlords—often in exchange for some kind of assurance they will not evict the tenant for the delay for a certain period of time. Getting landlords and tenants to work together, even for a common goal, hasn’t always been easy.
Fourth, outreach. Unlike homeowners, who have regular contact with banks that can tell them about federal mortgage forbearance, more than half of the nation’s tenants don’t even know there is a federal relief program. That’s according to a survey conducted in May and published by the Urban Land Institute last month, which notes that less than 6 percent of landlords and 11 percent of tenants had applied for federal relief—a fraction of those who say they’re behind.
Fifth, local incompetence. How else to explain why New York State—facing one of the worst renter-household crises in the country—has waited so long to get money to people who need it?
Sixth, existing disinvestment. Washington turned on a fire hose of cash, but just like state unemployment systems, local housing agencies and nonprofits who help low-income tenants apply for help got swamped. A high-functioning social welfare program takes practice, and even 18 months in, many organizations are having trouble scaling up to get the job done.
maybe sending the owners the STIMULUS checks to pay the rent that the renters never paid would have been a better idea...
We could have simply not shut down the economy to hurt Trump’s reelection.
My deadbeat nephew has been out of work for almost 6 years and living in I think Venice Beach, CA.
Our tax dollars are paying for his 28k rent bill of the last year.
I don’t care, I paid my rent the whole time. Pay or get out.
I think housing prices have shot up, in part, due to the lack of normal turnover in sales and rental inventory.
The squatters have stayed in place where normally those homes would have been processed in an orderly, normal market cycle.
A big reckoning is about to hit and everyone will be affected. A flood of sales and a glut of rentals will drop prices. All the people who took cash out refi loans because of the low interest rates and high home values are going to wind up under water.
Good! I’m up to date on all my payments with no help from the gov!
This was inevitable. It was used to cover the true cost of the lockdowns and the bloodletting will be very ugly. All at once.
Our son is doing the HVAC part of a Section 8 complex tear out and remodel.
Do you know what Section 8 people do to apartments? He can tell you.
Giving more money is not the solution. Keeping people working is the solution.
“... the eviction moratorium enacted by the Centers for Disease Control...”
THERE is your problem, right there.
Who the hell gave them the power to enact anything at all, let alone something to do with rent? (Answer: Nobody!)
Financial institutions should have been FORCED to defer all monthly payments for the same time period without any stipulations. If they had done that, the shutdown would have never occurred and Trump would still be President.
That's good. Make the applications longer.