Landlords need help too

The Indicator from Planet Money

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4.7 • 9.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

For renters to receive emergency rental assistance, they usually need cooperation from their landlords. This is also true vice versa. On today's show, we hear about the struggles of two mom-and-pop landlords with renters who left them holding the bag.

Check out some of Chris Arnold's earlier reporting on the challenges renters are facing during the pandemic:

Why rent help from Congress has been so damn slow getting to people who need it

Georgia County Tried To Help Everyone Facing Eviction. Now A Crisis Looms

With The Eviction Moratorium's End Looming, Black Renters Likely To Be Hit Hard

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0:00.0	NPR.
0:03.4	This is the indicator from Planet Money.
0:13.7	I'm Stacey Bannick-Smith and I'm very excited we are joined today by the amazing NPR
0:19.0	correspondent Chris Arnold.
0:20.2	Hey, hey.
0:21.2	You've done some truly amazing reporting over the last couple of years.
0:24.5	Thank you.
0:25.5	All parts of the economy really, but especially on a lot of the kind of changing rules and issues
0:30.8	around evictions and protections for renters.
0:33.6	Right.
0:34.6	I mean, there are still more than 8 million people behind on rent.
0:38.0	It's like a huge crisis, you know, families facing eviction and I'm doing a lot of stories
0:42.6	about that.
0:43.6	But I wanted to tell you guys today a different story, a story about how some landlords have
0:50.4	really been struggling too.
0:52.0	And we don't think about this as much, but you know, there's all kinds of landlords.
0:55.2	It's not just big corporations.
0:57.6	Not just big corporations, which sometimes are, you know, just pushing out families in
1:01.7	the street when arguably they really shouldn't be.
1:04.3	And that's all true.
1:05.3	But still about half of the rental units in the country are owned by more like mom and
1:10.0	pops and some of those landlords have been having a really hard time and they're really
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