As with much of the US pandemic response, a half measure with significant consequences.
Eviction moratoriums in 2021 - a full year after the start of the crisis are nonsensical. Individual owners such in the article will eventually lose their properties to deeper pockets - further entrenching wealth disparity.
The US economy is still heavily impacted by the pandemic, and entire sectors are dead or heavily damaged ( e.g. tourism, airlines, etc.). Unemployment is at 6.3%, which is significantly more than pre-pandemic (3.5%). Not to mention all the employed with reduced income ( e.g. restaurant staff, cab drivers etc.).
What do you propose should happen to all those that are still un or underemployed ? What is the bigger problem, millions of people on the streets driven to crime, or millions of property owners losing property and/or money?
How do we know that’s not the actual goal of those policies?
It is all kind of sad, really.
There is a word that describes this kind of merger of corporate and government power, I just don't seem to remember it.