Solving the housing shortage will be tough and is going to take real leadership. 

The price of food and gas going up is due to a shortage of consuming and usage.

At least NY State has a guideline on how to allocate the ventilators in case of shortages, Italian doctors are on their own making decision on who to treat.https://www.health.ny.gov/regulations/task_force/reports_publications/docs/ventilator_guidelines.pdfState of WA already closed all the schools for 6 weeks starting Tue Mar 17 (I am sure other states will follow), which means some of our tenants won't be able to go to work if they have small kids at home...I am worried about paying mortgages for my rentals because this won't end at least for 2 months, and up to 4-5 months.

People want to get out of renting.. rates are low.. they move for jobs etc. there is a shortage of SFR's in certain markets so demand is still strong. 

Food and gas shortages.  

They will never see that the increased housing shortage is a result of these types of decisions.  

Today, we are in a housing SHORTAGE.

Apple, Google, Xerox, Fuji film, and Meta are all coming into the area. 5k people a month move to the area which has created a housing shortage, rent spikes, major appreciation (not just due to inflation) and you can still find single family homes for sale on the MLS in good condition for ~250k+ Tenant-landlord laws are landlord-friendly and taxes are low.

With the way the market is right now, most maintenance // construction // handy-man guys have no shortage of work.

There is no shortage of renters and if you have a well maintained product, you’re very likely to attract a qualified long term tenant.