Papa John's Delivering Its HQ To Atlanta

For many apartment landlords, income is down, expenses are holding steady or rising, and promised relief from various governments is slender or nonexistent. Traditional methods to maintain income are off-limits, even in states without eviction bans, now that the federal government has halted evictions for the rest of the year.

After six months of the coronavirus pandemic and a frantic, uneven response by policymakers, landlords are under pressure, and optimism is in short supply among mom-and-pops and midsized owners.

"It's a dire situation," MassLandlords Executive Director Douglas Quattrochi said. "We don't have data on it, because no one is tracking what happens to small landlords. But anecdotally, we hear it every day from landlords. They ask their tenants to pay and hope that's enough to keep their business running. For a lot of small landlords, it isn't."

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As the coronavirus pandemic puts a dampener on the ways people used to meet, get to know one another and stay in touch, the relationship-driven lending business has come up with all manner of substitutes for in-person meetings, from drive-by caravans to celebrate existing clients and web-crawling technologies to suss out potential new ones.

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The coronavirus has been ravaging the U.S. for about six months now, and new data has emerged to support the locally popular notion that it is driving more people from New York to Philadelphia.

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