Just like these landlords telling renters that they should have prepared for a “rainy day”, landlords should have contingencies in place as well- any landlord totally dependent on rent as a sole source of income and willing to put people out for circumstances beyond their control that could potentially expose people’s health and lives to a pandemic crisis that the govt can’t even get under control, then they weren’t all that financial stable to begin with.
if they could do this for free, you know very well that most of the rental market is focused on overpricing, profit and greed:
The Four Seasons on Billionaires' Row, the most expensive street in NYC, is set to house doctors and nurses for free during the coronavirus pandemic
The Four Seasons hotel on Manhattan's Billionaires' Row will be used to house nurses, doctors, and other medical personnel free of charge,
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced on Wednesday. Cuomo's press release said the hotel would be the first of several in New York to house healthcare workers at no cost.
"The 350 room hotel will provide medical personnel currently working to respond to the coronavirus outbreak lodging free of charge," the governor's office
said in the press release. In Chicago,
empty hotel rooms are used to house coronavirus patients and those awaiting test results.
The hotel is on the swanky
Billionaires' Row. Business Insider's Katie Warren
previously reported that the area includes a set of eight ultraluxury skyscrapers along the southern end of Central Park, as well as Central Park South, which was the most expensive street in the city in 2019. Condos there start at about $3 million and can fetch upward of $60 million.