Landlords want to be paid for pandemic losses and hope to reach a deal with the Trump administration

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5. Actually I think they should be reimbursed.

Even at the time I thought it was terribly unfair to tell landlords they could not evict a tenant who was not paying rent. Landlords were unpaid but still had to provide the service, which involves paying their taxes, doing needed repairs, maintaining utilities if they were included in the rental price.

Imagine telling supermarkets they could not charge for food during the pandemic, or airlines that they would have to transport people for free. I just don't believe that it is right (or Constitutional) to force someone to provide a service for no payment, under any circumstances.

The intention was good. Many people could not go to work during that time, through no fault of their own, and a surge of homelessness during a pandemic would have been disastrous. But it should have been dealt with differently, perhaps with a freeze of rental prices combined with a rent voucher system.

So I think these businesses should be reimbursed, as long as they can document their losses accurately.