Housing Instability & Homelessness

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Housing Instability & Homelessness Resources

Significant Number of Renters Still Behind on Rent in September

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) released an analysis of the Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey for September 2 to September 14, which finds millions of households continuing to struggle to pay their rent and afford food. One in four renters with children was behind on rent in…

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…