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Robert Marbut left his position as executive director of the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) on February 16. Mr. Marbut’s tenure at USICH was defined by his rejection of evidence-based best practices and endorsement of dehumanizing and ineffective methods for addressing…
A paper in City & Community,“Predicting Mobility: Who is Forced to Move?,” uses the 2013 American Housing Survey (AHS) to examine which households are more likely to experience voluntary or forced moves. The authors use a broad definition of displacement that includes evictions, foreclosures,…
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…