Patriot Act: Rent in the Time of Coronavirus

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Patriot Act returns to Netflix amid quarantine to talk about how coronavirus is causing a rental crisis in America amid its existing housing problems. For those who are concerned about their area's rental legal protections, the show has created the site Don't Get Kicked Out as a database for how renters can protect themselves from eviction.

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[palmsread]

Are there cities currently with rent freeze?

[truth_and_facts]

Yeah I was wondering the same thing, so no city/country is doing rent freeze?! So why do people keep talking about it like it's happening somewhere? It just makes others paranoid and feel angry lol. But it honestly should be happening in many places, it should have been one of the first things the government put in place, better have a rent freeze than 1,200 dollars that barely covers rent and monthly bills, better yet is both rent freeze and a stimulus check.

[likeiused2]

even the small business grant/loan program stipulate that you have to use 75% of the loan on payroll and the rest on supplies, etc. there's no provision for rent, so these small businesses (idk for example a coffee shop or something) can't pay rent with that money, or they have to pay it back and possibly face an audit for using it for something besides "business expenses"...which, like, what's the point of buying supplies to run a business if you can't pay your rent?

[bananainpyjamas]

Some places have paused evictions for like three months. However back payments on missed rent would still be due so it's just kind of delaying the inevitable.

[polaroidmoment]

lol my building management put the same notice up but they gave someones email to reach out to if you were having financial difficulties. I'm not sure if they're allowing deferrals or not but we have an eviction moratorium so at least there's that.