Right. They spent a couple days thinking about it and realized what they have here is a recipe for Occupy Wall Street 2.0, with a much more radical proletariat and much worse excuses than the original. This was done to preempt riots and the manifestation of an actual, physical, organized resistance. It is better strategy for the owners to bleed people out of their houses then to throw them all out at once. They're going to keep their hands planted on the valve and release pressure in a controlled manner. Kick out 10% here, 5% there, and periodically crush any urban homeless encampments which might become hotbeds for radical anti-rent action before proceeding to the next batch of evictions.

They didn't backtrack due to organized resistance, but because organized resistance is an inevitable outcome of the evictions which needs to be carefully managed.

There is no place where people become radicalized faster than the bread lines. The emergence of "Bidenvilles" is legitimately the greatest threat to the empire.