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99% of the time, the story was "hahaha we're gonna jack your rent cuz we can, suck it loser."

Yes, professional tenants were exempt. No, that wasn't much consolation to most renters.

Exactly. I paid rent during the pandemic then afterwards, California paid landlords for any missed rent money but they did not reimburse renters who did pay. What a scam!

it was incredibly difficult to evict people in my area during COVID, as that required an eviction hearing and those were on hold for quite a long time.

> Huh? During COVID the US had several eviction moratoriums, which covered non-payment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_eviction_moratoriums_...

Sure, for the few lucky people in federal housing and the handful of states that implemented their own (the vast majority of which were lifted in less than 6 months). Point is that nearly all homeowners in the US received 18 months of mortgage forebearance immediately.

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/coronavirus/mortgage-forbear...