The latest pandemic relief package includes $25 billion for rent support, but falls well short of what's needed for a burgeoning class of long-term underemployed and unemployed Americans who have slipped into poverty during the pandemic.

Many of them are renters teetering on the verge of homelessness, even as large swaths of the U.S. economy have rebounded and coronavirus vaccines raise hopes for a brighter 2021.

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