When dozens of millions of people are suddenly jobless

[lunatica]

why the fuck are landlords and mortgage lenders still allowed to demand monthly payments at the risk of leaving millions of people homeless?

If business owners are being given money to keep their businesses afloat with the stipulation that they keep their employees, why not landlords being paid even a fraction of their rental income to keep their renters?

Everyone, and I mean everyone talks about people forced to keep continue paying their debts without any thought given to helping both the landlords and the renters. Why the fuck not?

And there should be a goddammed freeze on banks penalizing over missed mortgages and credit card payments and their gauging.

If people can prove to the government that they have been laid off because of the shut down then they can prove it to the banks and the mortgage companies and their landlords.

This would do more to ameliorate our pending economic collapse and it could keep millions and millions of people from lifelong ruin.

[elleng]

1. Contracts.

Pleased to learn my daughter's lender told her to pay whatever she can afford.

[lunatica]

4. Your daughter's landlord should be helped for doing that

There are tons of stories of people helping each other during the Great Depression. My husband’s great grandfather owned a little store which he kept open and stocked from his own money in which he allowed families who had lost jobs to “buy” food. They just kept a running tab which he never enforced. After the Depression he lost the store because he was broke, but he was OK with it because he had helped his community survive.

[elleng]

6. My daughter's 'landlord' is a bank; she has a mortgage.

I don't know what my grandfather did, he ran a deli in NYC during the depression, and then 3 of his kids served in WWII.

[lunatica]

8. Well that's even better!

It gives me a tiny glimmer of hope.

[elleng]

10. It appears that some mortgagors are doing the right thing.

[lunatica]

12. The smart ones are doing the necessary thing

Who are they going to rent to or give mortgages to right now? The buyers market is as dry as a dusty river bed right now.

[renate]

9. your husband's great grandfather was a great man

It's so nice to hear about truly good and kind people, especially these days.

[SheltieLover]

2. Need "trickle up" econ policies!

Let them compete for our business!

$ should go to families & USPS, but no. Yet another gigantic slush fund for repukes.🤬

[lunatica]

11. The fact is, who will they rent to if no one can go to work?

People should simply not move out until they eventually return to work or get jobs. Even the courts are not in session now.

[SheltieLover]

14. True but

slumlords can buy property foreclosed on for a fraction.

And, like the SX in WI, when big money snaps its fingers, somehow the courts are available. Police will then remove people & lock them out.🤬

[stopbush]

3. Let's not forget those who were unemployed before this crisis hit,

especially the longterm unemployed. They were already suffering and worried about their futures. Their chances of finding a job are nil right now, and because they were out of work they can’t avail themselves of many of the government programs meant to help people thru this crisis.

[lunatica]

5. You're right

No one needs to be forgotten. Everyone in this country can be taken care of. It’s a crime that they aren’t.

[sarcasmo]

7. Kick!

[lunatica]

13. Thank you.