Do you know someone who’s not paying their rent?
Me too.
The real estate industry is about to become the mother of all pandemic casualties.
Here’s what’s happening in NYC.
1. People are not paying their rent
No surprise, as there’s been a big increases in eviction complaints nationwide.
As the $600 a week in extra unemployment benefits evaporates, folks face a choice between food and the landlord.
Everyone is noticing more homeless on the streets.
Here’s what’s going on…
— End of days?
Sometimes it feels as if the world may be coming to and end.
First the virus, then economic collapse, now looting.
— Peaceful protests
Here’s a view from my friend’s apartment in Sheridan Square. Vast numbers of peaceful protesters swell the streets.
We are grateful to them.
At Zoom cocktails, my friend Shirley was a-flutter. She’d just gotten an antibody test!
A health department site popped up outside the Fine Fare at the corner of 116th and Lenox Avenue.
Antibody test! Now we’re talking. So a couple days later my husband and I went.
Harlem was bustling and evincing near-universal mask compliance.
Alas, at the Fine Fare we found no health department personnel pin-pricks a-ready.
Just midday shoppers.
Anna Murray is a technology CEO and writer. Her debut novel, “Greedy Heart,” is a POPSUGAR pick for April.