they haveton, d.c., yet to offer cash-strapped landlords relief to do that. that is coming up next.s is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ romaine: we have been talking about the covid-19 health crisis and potential economic crisis. now, a lot of folks saying we already have a housing crisis on our hands, and it involves rental properties. our next guest wrote a piece on the bloomberg terminal that really laid out the case of a really the trouble that a lot of in dealingre having with a lot of the relief measures states are laying out for renters. at the federal level, those landlords have got -- of not gotten relief themselves. can you like out the issue of the -- can you lay out the issue of the needs of the landlords and renters? >> it is a basic thing. our economy, in many ways, shut down. as a result, unemployment skyrocketed. tenants are unable to pay their rent or their full rent. a lot landlords, most of them small landlords, who depend on this income to pay mortgages, property taxes, maintenance, they are not getting a lot of their income coming in. then they start to get into trouble. pointla