The National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC) says that 80.2% of apartment households made a full or partial rent payment by May 6th. This figure is a 1.5-percentage point decrease in the share who paid rent through May 6, 2019 and compares to 78.0% that had paid by April 6, 2020. The data comes from the NMHC’s Rent Payment Tracker which uses data from 11.4 million professionally managed apartment units across the country.
“Despite the fact that over twenty million people lost their jobs in April, for the second month in a row, we are seeing evidence that apartment renters who can pay rent are stepping up and doing so,” said Doug Bibby, NMHC President. “We expect May to largely mirror April, when the payment rate increased throughout the month as financial assistance worked its way to people’s bank accounts.”
Click here to read the full release at the NMHC.
Click here to view the NMHC’s Rent Payment Tracker.
