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To: NEW YORK CITY LEGISLATORS
NEW YORK CITY - COVID-19 Emergency Rent and Debt Forgiveness
Help aid all NEW YORK CITY residents who have been directly affected by the recent layoffs due to the COVID-19 Emergency. We believe that an immediate moratorium on collecting rent and mortgage and forgiveness of interest, late fees, or the owing of that apartment rent in the future should be implemented. This moratorium and forgiveness should continue as long as the critical and necessary social distancing continues until the quarantine is lifted.
Why is this important?
The NEW YORK CITY working class has been financially crippled by the critical and necessary measures put in place to slow the spread of COVID-19. Though the federal or state government may eventually provide relief, the immediate conservation of our limited financial resources is necessary for our own and our family's health and wellbeing. Rentors, Leasors, banks and other relevant institutions can, as a class seek their own relief; the state and federal government is much more responsive and historically more likely to act on their behalf. With containment of the virus no where in sight, we must be able to protect our limited cash flow immediately.