The case for a rent holiday for businesses on the coronavirus economic frontline
- Written by Danielle Wood, Program Director, Budget Policy and Institutional Reform, Grattan Institute
As the public health response to supress the COVID-19 virus ramps up, so to does the economic fallout. Shutdowns and enforced spatial distancing are necessary to try to prevent hospital intensive care units becoming overwhelmed.
But businesses on the economic frontline – those shut or soon to be shut down by the public health restrictions...
