Biden Thread

[ReluctantSamurai]

My thought is that perhaps a rule saying that rent back payments be made in installments rather than all at once, but the moratorium has to end eventually.

Yes, it has to end eventually. Not all landlords are big corporations, and those people have bills to pay, as well. There's still roughly $44 billion in federal aid designated specifically to help with this, sitting unused. Delegating disbursement to the states was a mistake, IMHO, as few states have the infrastructure to do the said disbursement. And the language of the two bills that set up the funds to begin with, are overly complicated, and in some ways very vague.

Addressing the root causes for this mess is going to take a lot of time, if it ever happens at all. But in the meantime, get this money disbursed and pursue avenues like the installment payments you suggested...