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Devin Q. Rutan, Peter Hepburn, and …
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The Growing Risk of Eviction in the Suburbs

American suburbs have changed dramatically over the last several decades. Over time, they’ve become poorer, more diverse, and the site of a growing share of eviction cases.

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Camila Vallejo
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2022: The Year We Refused to Go Back to Normal

As pandemic-era rental assistance funds and related resources started to sunset, the fight for better protections didn’t. 2022 was defined by groups across the country continuing to push for housing justice.

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Bonnie Bertram, Anne Checler, Erik …
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Facing Eviction

Why have some American families struggled to keep their homes during the COVID pandemic, despite a federal ban on evictions? Facing Eviction offers an intimate look at the United States’ affordable housing crisis through the eyes of …

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The Eviction Lab
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New Data Release Shows that 3.6 Million Eviction Cases were Filed in the United States in 2018

The Eviction Lab’s newest data release shows that nearly 6 out of 100 renting households were threatened with eviction at least once during 2018.

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Bryce Covert
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After the Eviction Moratorium

The long-predicted nationwide wave of lockouts is finally cresting. A report from New York City housing court

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Eric Peterson
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Utah helped landlords, not renters. How that’s changing.

In 2021, a spokesperson for the Department of the Treasury was surprised to learn that Utah was using federal Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) money to pay landlords’ legal bills for evicting renters.

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Emily A. Benfer, Robert Koehler, Alyx …
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Assessing State Eviction Prevention Policies in Response to COVID-19

We describe and analyze the unprecedented eviction prevention housing policies enacted at the state level in response to COVID-19, where protections worked very differently from state to state.

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