Texas renters got unprecedented help during the pandemic. The Legislature is unlikely to extend it.

A leasing sign is displayed outside Garden Court Apartments in north Midland. (Credit: Jerod Foster for The Texas Tribune)

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In the three years since the coronavirus pandemic began, a historic amount of money and attention has been aimed at keeping the nearly 40% of Texans who are renters in stable housing, providing a rare chance to test policies and programs that might have never been adopted in the state at such a scale otherwise.