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Millions of federal dollars are pouring into New Jersey to help pay for a mountain of rent arrears that have accrued during more than a year of pandemic, but landlords say it won’t be enough to make them whole. And housing advocates predict the money will not stop a wave of evictions whenever Gov. Phil Murphy lifts his ban on ejection for nonpayment of rent.
The New Jersey Apartment Association, which represents mostly large landlords, estimates that its members and other landlords across the state have lost around $2 billion in rent since COVID-19 began to devastate the economy. What’s more, it predicts that several rounds of federal assistance will pay for only about half of the total.
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