And then what. If the tenants are forced to leave will there be anyone else that can take their places? Doubt it.
I do realize a lot of 'owners' (landlords is a hold over from the days of landed gentry and should not be used in a democratic egalitarian system) also have bills to pay including taxes and utilities. I wonder if it is the owner shutting off the utilities or the utility companies or a combination of both.
This will be a hard time for many especially all those that have lost their homes through disaster.

These heartless landlords will always be with us unfortunately!

The whole system is so sick. Not all landlords are corporations or rich folks. Some landlords are like my mom, she is 74 and her whole income is from two modest rental properties, four apartments total. And if they miss a couple of payments, she starts missing payments on her bills. The banks need to be forgiving her debts, if she can forgive the debts to her. It needs to be happening from the top down.

And . . . my bit of venting here: I've known and loved folks from in the industry - but morally, financial services is generally the darkest and most vile business to be in. To make money simply by moving money around? They contribute nothing to humanity. A cleaning person, a plumber, an artist, a teacher, a cop, a sales clerk . . . pretty much anything adds more to the world than simply making money off the margins of manipulating money. That makes one a parasite on the human race.

This financial collapse we are in? It needs to be corrected from the top down, not the bottom up.

the police can be called. they can't shut off jtilities.

This is inhuman and I am a landlord. I hate that term, landlord as I am lord of nothing and responsible for all. But at least it has been fun.