Former Vice President Joe Biden believes rent and mortgage payments should be forgiven during the coronavirus pandemic, he said in an interview published Wednesday morning, though his campaign was sparse on details about a proposal.

Asked by journalist Peter Hamby whether it was possible for there to be some kind of federal rent bailout, Biden replied: Absolutely. There is. And we should. We should.

There should be rent forgiveness and there should be mortgage forgiveness now in the middle of this crisis, Biden said. Forgiveness. Not paid later, forgiveness. Its critically important to people who are in the lower-income strata.

A transcript of the interview, conducted for Snapchats series Good Luck America, was published in Vanity Fair .