Seriously stupid on multiple levels.
For the landlord it means no income. Unless there is a corresponding waiving of his mortgage payments and/or taxes, the landlord could lose the property.
For the renter it means coming up with a huge chunk of change all at once or immediate eviction. I have read that landlords can start the eviction clock so that if they do not get that payment when the waiver ends, they can evict pretty much immediately.
Neither of these is a good situation, but both are caused by massive government overreaction to a “plague” with a +99% survival rate.
Politically, I don’t know if the renters will every be evicted.