PBS NewsHour

How the outbreak’s economic disruption is impacting renters

Clip: 03/29/2020 | 4m 13s | Video has closed captioning.

There are 44 million households that are renting in the U.S., but even before the massive economic disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic many were already stretching their budgets to afford housing. But what will happen to them now? Hari Sreenivasan spoke with Jenny Schuetz, a housing economist at the Brookings Institution, to learn more.