Eviction Bans Keep Renters Home, Curb COVID Spread

Danya Keene, PhD, assistant professor, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT.

Emily Benfer, JD, visiting regulation professor, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC.

Kathryn Leifheit, PhD, postdoctoral fellow, Department of Health Policy and Management, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles.

Pew Research Center: “Financial and health impacts of COVID-19 vary widely by race and ethnicity.”

ProfessionalPublica: “The Eviction Ban Worked, but It’s Almost Over. Some Landlords Are Getting Ready.”

SSRN: “Expiring Eviction Moratoriums and COVID-19 Incidence and Mortality,” “Pandemic Housing Policy: Examining the Relationship Among Eviction, Housing Instability, Health Inequity, and COVID-19 Transmission,” “Public Health Amici Curiae Brief in Support of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Eviction Moratorium.”

MedRXiv: “The effect of eviction moratoriums on the transmission of SARS-CoV-2.”

The Federal Register: “Temporary Halt in Residential Evictions To Prevent the Further Spread of COVID-19.”

National Housing Law Project: “Stopping COVID-19 Evictions Survey Results.”

National Low Income Housing Project: “State and Local Rental Assistance Programs.”

WAMU: “Legal Evictions Are Banned During The Pandemic, But ‘Invisible’ Evictions Are On The Rise.”

Eviction Lab Tracking System.

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: “Protections for Renters.”

NPR.org: “COVID-19 Relief Bill Could Stave Off Historic Wave Of Evictions”