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State and Municipal Legal Barriers May Reduce Serial Eviction Filings

An article in Social Forces, “Serial Eviction Filing: Civil Courts, Property Management, and the Threat of Displacement,” finds that serial eviction filings—when a property manager files to evict the same household from the same address multiple times—are regularly used to extract monetary…

Homeless System Leaders Provide Promising Practices Responding to COVID-19

The National Alliance to End Homelessness (NAEH) released a third report as part of its series on homeless system responses during COVID-19. The report, Responding to COVID-19: Conversations with Homeless System Leaders, identifies promising practices and is based on 24 interviews with Continuum of…

Getting Out to Vote

Housing Providers Step Up to Help Renters Vote Successfully A coalition of housing providers throughout the country has come together under the Our Homes, Our Votes: 2020 banner, committing to increasing voter registration and voter turnout among their residents. Renters face so many barriers to…