> Landlords are part of the financial system. Deciding landlords must take the loss on rent so that their tenants can be safe is sensible health and social poli

> Landlords are part of the financial system. Deciding landlords must take the loss on rent so that their tenants can be safe is sensible health and social policy during the acute uncertain phase of the pandemic last year. That uncertainty is now gone. I thought the eviction moratoriums were more to avoid adding a giant homelessness crisis on top of the already-existing pandemic crisis. It was a secondary benefit that they would also help those people socially distance to help control the pandemic. Ideally the government would have stepped in with effective programs to support existing financial relationships to avoid disruption (e.g. paying employers to keep employees on the payroll, which I think Germany did), but some people strongly believe we shouldn't have nice things like that.