> Tangential and honest question: how do eviction moratoriums help? They allow politicians to pretend they've resolved a problem, while managing other aspects

> Tangential and honest question: how do eviction moratoriums help? They allow politicians to pretend they've resolved a problem, while managing other aspects of a crisis. Later, when the moratorium expires, hopefully the media is concerned with other things and the plight of the evicted will go unheeded. It's also a middle-of-the-road measure between doing nothing (bad publicity) and declaring a rent holiday / subsidizing rent from taxes / expropriating rented-out apartments or other such measures (politically difficult, angers donors and politicians' social milieu).