Listing of Articles focusing on evictions, foreclosures, relocations/displacement & homelessness.
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A National Bureau of Economic Research working paper, “Housing Precarity & the COVID-19 Pandemic: Impacts of Utility Disconnection and Eviction Moratoria on Infections and Deaths Across US Counties,” estimates that moratoriums on both eviction and utility disconnection effectively prevent COVID…
A paper released in December 2020, “Eviction Risk of Rental Housing: Does it Matter How Your Landlord Finances the Property?,” examines the extent to which different types of home loans affect landlords’ decisions to evict tenants for non-payment of rent. The researchers find that counties with a…
A recent survey and report from Urban Institute highlights the ongoing hardships many renters face amid COVID-19. The report, “The Looming Eviction Cliff: Findings from the Urban Institute Coronavirus Tracking Survey,” finds that approximately 10% of renters were behind on rent in September. It…
A paper in Housing Policy Debate, “Eviction and Segmented Housing Markets in Richmond, Virginia,” argues that eviction and the threat of eviction play a role in segmenting the housing market and creating targeted housing scarcity for specific groups of tenants. The owners of a handful of lower-…