With this being an election year, the politicians who are driving the boat are more distracted than usual on their political careers rather than the good the American public.

Politicians are messing with our business and encouraging bad tenant behavior. 

We already know people/politicians don't 'feel our pain'. 

These politicians are not going away. 

Therefore want permission to skip with-holding payments.These govt types have no clue on the consequences of their actions.Unfortunately, there's more tenant votes than landlord voters and politicians can count.

Three reasons: (1) the federal government is still in the driver's seat with Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac, so those mortgages will get deferred or worked out in some way; politicians got killed last time for the foreclosure rate, so they are not going to let it happen again and (2) the fundamental structure around loan origination is a million times better than it was in the run up to 2008; between 01 - 07 you did not need a license to originate a loan once Dodd-Frank passed and licensing became the standard a lot of bad loan officers got out of the business, and (3) Banks also tightened up their verification standards ( I know the standards are still relatively loose) but 4506T forms were not used between 01 - 07, so people lied about their income; after 2008, banks started to use 4506T forms to verify tax returns. 

LOLI'm not expecting a landslide of evictions; we may get to file docs but one way or another politicians will get involved again and again.

But I don't normally think of Providence & RI as a growing economy, it's more of an overflow/bedroom community to the tech & startup growth in Boston (in my mind anyway).Politicians would probably be very familiar with which new businesses (if any) are coming into the are, but they tend to spin everything (omitting negative data, if already in office, or omitting positive data if challenging someone already in office),Providence Business News is a great resource for this kind of question, though it may usually be too granular to answer the bigger picture type of question you're asking.

We should criticize any politician when they are leading us in a bad direction.

Unfortunately politicians look for votes regardless of what is best for society and morally correct.