by Calculated Risk on 12/22/2020 03:22:00 PM

From the NMHC: NMHC Rent Payment Tracker Finds 89.8 Percent of Apartment Households Paid Rent as of December 20

The National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC)’s Rent Payment Tracker found 89.8 percent of apartment households made a full or partial rent payment by December 20 in its survey of 11.5 million units of professionally managed apartment units across the country.

This is a 3.4 percentage point, or 392,952 household decrease from the share who paid rent through December 20, 2019 and compares to 90.3 percent that had paid by November 20, 2020. These data encompass a wide variety of market-rate rental properties across the United States, which can vary by size, type and average rental price.
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This graph from the NMHC Rent Payment Tracker shows the percent of household making full or partial rent payments by the 6th (dark color) and 20th (light color) of the month.

This is mostly for large, professionally managed properties.

The new disaster relief should help people make their rent payments.