For the tenants who are thinking that they can avoid paying their rent during this forbearance period, they have a rude awakening coming. While the eviction process is on hold in Santa Monica (we have a moratorium until Sept. 30, on evictions) this is not a period of “Free Rent” or “Cancelled Rent.” The protesters who want to “Cancel Rent” are living in a dream world of some Utopian fantasy that completely ignores any semblance of reality and basic social economies. It may look and sound like a happy little way to make life okay for those tenants to just “cancel rent” but someone else is left holding the debt that monthly rents pay.

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