> Why isn't it automated yet? You delay your rent and your door key stops working.

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners has an excellent scene where something like this happens to a kid down on his luck.

and in cyberpunk 2077 there are neon signs above each apartment door indicating rent payment status, gotta bring public shaming into it too. This is the future our loyal soldiers for capitalism fight for on this platform in every thread lol.

Gotta use collective punishment to create collective enforcement. Make it so when a sign is red, police storm that block like in half-life 2. Then people who let their signs turn yellow will be ostracized until they fix it.