NMHC: Rent Payment Tracker Shows Households Paying Rent Declined in October

From the NMHC: NMHC Rent Payment Tracker Finds 90.6 Percent of Apartment Households Paid Rent as of October 20

The National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC)’s Rent Payment Tracker found 90.6 percent of apartment households made a full or partial rent payment by October 20 in its survey of 11.4 million units of professionally managed apartment units across the country.

This is a 1.8-percentage point, or 199,224-household decrease from the share who paid rent through October 20, 2019 and compares to 90.1 percent that had paid by September 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.

“The importance of the initial support provided to apartment residents by the CARES Act is becoming increasingly clear,” said Doug Bibby, NMHC President. “However, that support has now long since expired and the savings households were able to build are evaporating quickly. NMHC continues to urge lawmakers to come together and pass meaningful assistance to support renters and keep America’s rental housing sector stable.”
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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 20th of the month.

CR Note: This is mostly for large, professionally managed properties.  

There has been some decline in households paying rent, but rent payments are not falling off a cliff.