I’ve been hearing from housing providers large and small about the impact of the state and local eviction bans. The damage has been uneven with some providers reporting only a few people with issues paying rent to entire buildings trying to hold a provider hostage with demands unrelated to hardships created by the COVID-19 response. Today, after talking with a housing provider who’s seeing his delinquencies rise by almost 60 percent with some of his residents unable to collect unemployment benefits due to them, I decided I needed to appeal to state leaders as well as local ones. I use the term “leader” in the general sense. They have to prove they deserve that eponym. Here’s a letter and the attachment, some survey results completed by Commercial Analytics.

Let’s Work Together from Roger Valdez

Attachment: Commercial Analytics One Pager from Roger Valdez