Protecting the Most Vulnerable: Policy Response and Eviction Filing Patterns During the COVID-19 Pandemic
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
; 9(3):186-207, 2023.
Article
in English
| ProQuest Central | ID: covidwho-2315313
ABSTRACT
The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic crisis exposed the U.S. rental housing market to extraordinary stress. Policymakers at the federal, state, and local levels established eviction moratoria and a number of additional direct and indirect renter-supportive measures in a bid to prevent a surge in evictions and associated public health risks. This article assesses the net efficacy of these interventions, analyzing changes in eviction filing patterns in 2020–2021 in thirty-one cities across the country. We find that eviction filings were dramatically reduced over this period. The largest reductions were in places that previously experienced highest eviction filing rates, particularly majority-Black and low-income neighborhoods. Although these changes did not ameliorate racial, gender, and income inequalities in relative risk of eviction, they did significantly reduce rates across the board, resulting in especially large absolute gains in previously high-risk communities.
Social Sciences: Comprehensive Works; COVID-19; eviction; housing instability; inequality; Risk reduction; Public health; Risk factors; Policy making; Efficacy; Evictions; Rentals; Income inequality; Neighborhoods; Consolidated Appropriations Act 2021-US; Economic crisis; Pandemics; Housing market; Health risks; High risk; Health education; Unemployment; Cost control; Coronaviruses; Households; United States--US
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English
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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
Year:
2023
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Article
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