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Landlords feel pain, too. And they have bills to pay.
They might not have the most beloved public image and are often caricatured as greedy and heartless.
But landlords feel pain, too. And they have bills to pay.
Many have been forced to drain their savings, max out their credit, and put themselves in financial peril to hold on to their buildings, as Suzannah Cavanaugh, Trevor Bach and Emily Landes write in a series of stories.
Rent relief programs were supposed to help, but little of the money has been distributed. And the CDC’s new eviction moratorium stretching through Oct. 3 is another blow to landlords still left to pay their mortgages after many tenants haven’t paid their rent. Even when evictions do come back, there’s unlikely to be short-term relief for landlords, given the backlog in housing court.
