“This is a time where it’s not an overstatement to say that for many people, eviction can lead to death.”
By Kenny Stancil, staff writer for Common Dreams. Published 11-30-2020
“There is no way for a vaccine to be successful without addressing the eviction crisis.”
That’s how housing justice advocate Emily Benfer, a law professor at Wake Forest University, put it when describing her co-authored research, which found that the premature expiration of state eviction bans led to more than 433,000 excess Covid-19 cases and 10,700 preventable deaths in the United States between March and September.
Although the CDC issued a national eviction moratorium in early September to reduce the transmission of the coronavirus, thousands of tenants across the United States had already been displaced prior to that as a result of uneven state-level protections. Continue reading