Eviction Bans Keep Renters Home, Curb COVID Spread
Dec. 28, 2020 Millions of Americans have struggled to pay their rent since the pandemic started, as the economic crisis brought pay cuts, furloughs, and job losses, adding insult to the coronavirus nightmare. Tenants are being evicted; some end up living in crowded homeless shelters or couch-surfing with family members or friends.
The Eviction Lab at Princeton University estimates there have been more than 150,000 evictions during the pandemic in the 27 cities it tracks.
“I spoke with one woman living with her 12-year-old daughter in an apartment who let a friend who had nowhere else to stay sleep in her living room. She is concerned about the risk of COVID-19 anytime you add a new member to your household, there’s an added risk,” says Danya Keene, PhD, an assistant professor at Yale School of Public Health in New Haven, CT.
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Millions of renters in the U.S. face a bitter prospect this winter: eviction. Already, the numbers of low-income renters, often people of color, forced from their homes is ticking up. The end of a federal moratorium on evictions, combined with the expiration of pandemic unemployment assistance, could turn that trickle into a flood – by one estimate affecting 40 million Americans.
And they would be pushed out at the height of a pandemic, which poses new risks. While medical professionals are urging people to socially distance, people evicted would be doubling up with relatives or friends or trying to find shelters that are already facing pandemic mandates to reduce crowding.
Millions of renters in the U.S. face a bitter prospect this winter: eviction. Already, the numbers of low-income renters, often people of color, forced from their homes is ticking up. The end of a federal moratorium on evictions, combined with the expiration of pandemic unemployment assistance, could turn that trickle into a flood – by one estimate affecting 40 million Americans.
And they would be pushed out at the height of a pandemic, which poses new risks. While medical professionals are urging people to socially distance, people evicted would be doubling up with relatives or friends or trying to find shelters that are already facing pandemic mandates to reduce crowding.