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(CNN)The American Dream of home ownership may be slipping out of reach for adults coming of age in and around the Great Recession and starting families in and around the pandemic. But that dream may still be for rent.
After spending the past weekend focused on the ending federal eviction moratorium and frightening predictions that a wave of pent-up evictions is imminent and will mostly effect lower income Americans and people of color, it was with some whiplash that I read Hanna Ziady’s story for CNN Business Monday morning.
These are not the landlords who wrote in to me after reading my story over the weekend about the end to the eviction moratorium and complaining that they subsist on rent from investment properties and have been hurt by people not paying rent.
And they don’t sound like big blocks of apartments, but rather single family developments in the suburbs.
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