Eight million (8,000,000) Americans are behind on rent payments

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What to do, what to do?

"The survey found that 3.5 million households were somewhat likely to leave their rented spaces (homes/apartments) within the next two months because of an eviction. Most of these folks are of the working poor class and situated in large metro areas from New York to Atlanta, where the cost of living, including shelter, food, and fuel, has skyrocketed."

Each if those renters has a landlord and most landlords have a mortgage.

Plus, people who have been evicted have a hard time scraping enough together to rent a new place.

Unless  they are like the set of renters I evicted, evicted not because they didn't have the money (good income) but because they said they didn't have to pay "because of Covid". The judge didn't laugh at them but he didn't like their answer either.  They're gone.

Are we headed to the abyss where millions of people have no place to live and it's the zombie apocalypse or will those people actually go out and get jobs? Plenty of work out there with "Help Wanted" signs.  That's the problem when people get trophies for just showing up to class all their lives and are finally faced with reality.