Hi there, I'm Ed Butler. Welcome to Business Daily from the BBC. Today, the agony facing millions of

Americans who can't pay the rent. We were just being accosted, harassed. The messages were just like,

you freeloaders, you squatters, it was just very tense. A renter's nightmare, potentially an eviction's crisis. What could all

this mean for the U.S.? That's the recipe for pushing the U.S. economy back into recession with

double-dural unemployment, at least through to the other side of the pandemic. And my sense of it

would be that this period will go down in history as an

economic depression. It'll be that tough. That's all to come on Business Daily from the BBC.

I was a after-school art education leader from kindergarten to about eighth grade. And the last few months have been pretty tough.

I've lost my job as so many other people in the United States.

I've gotten out of a very abusive relationship.

I'm now getting kicked out of my house.

Tough indeed. That's Sifu. She's a Maryland resident,

describing some of the harsh new realities of life post-COVID.

Losing her rented home, along with other housemates in the outskirts of Washington, D.C.,

she says, has been the hardest part.

Myself and another one of my roommates who is also an educator, we both lost our job.

And so we reached out and told them, you know, we don't have jobs.

We've applied for unemployment.

We're waiting and we're holding on, hoping that it'll be here.

We haven't received anything.

So we only have enough money to eat and to get around.

So we can't really do much.

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