Jenny Schuetz:

So the check that you write to the landlord goes to pay for a bunch of things that are kind of downstream from there. The first payment really has to go to the local government for property taxes. So that even takes priority over the mortgage for landlords. And this is a time when we know that local governments are on the frontlines providing a lot of direct services. Taking care of people with public health concerns, making sure that communities are still up and functioning. And local governments are seeing their revenues drop. So it would really be a shame if their property taxes got cut even further.

After that there’s the mortgage payment, and Congress is doing their best, and the

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