I can certainly understand your view despite my almost pathological hatred of landlordism. I just think a once in a century pandemic is the type of event where

I can certainly understand your view despite my almost pathological hatred of landlordism. I just think a once in a century pandemic is the type of event where it's useful for the government to step in and safeguard essentials for the population. And asking landlords not to throw people on the street at no additional cost (let's say they do evict, who is going to be doing viewings at the height of the pandemic?) to them is a very low impact ask. Edit: I think the root cause disagreement is how we categorise housing, as an essential or an investment. I can see why you'd be squeamish about such heavy-handed intervention with investments but my view is that's a category error. This is like wartime rationing, people need to eat and they need to live.