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Questions and answers about evictions

With most COVID-19 aid now in the rearview mirror, eviction filings are once again reaching, or even surpassing, pre-pandemic levels in cities across the country. As many tenants are left to navigate an eviction with few protections, we …

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Olivia Jin, Emily Lemmerman, Peter …
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Neighborhoods with Highest Eviction Filing Rates have Lowest Levels of COVID-19 Vaccination

Where do vaccination rates stand in neighborhoods that have seen most eviction filings during the pandemic? We found a pattern of higher eviction filing rates in neighborhoods with lower vaccination rates in every jurisdiction for which we …

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Lavar Edmonds, Peter Hepburn, Olivia …
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Eviction Prevalence and Spatial Variation Within the Houston Independent School District

Residential mobility affects children’s education, generally for the worse. Forced mobility—involuntary moves over which residents have little or no control—has the potential to be more disruptive, and thus more detrimental to children’s …

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Lori Teresa Yearwood
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A $9-an-hour port-a-potty job helped her escape homelessness. Now she watches others struggle.

Dawn Woudenberg witnesses the pain on Salt Lake City’s streets working across from the homeless shelter where she used to sleep.

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Alieza Durana and Carl Gershenson
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Struggling Renters Need More Federal Aid

The Biden-Harris administration did not expand Section 8 vouchers in its recent infrastructure proposals, which could leave millions of renters behind.

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Christina Leimer
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San Francisco Supervisors Put Corporate Responsibility to the Test

In San Francisco, Supervisors are taking an unusual tack. Just to cover tenants’ COVID-related rent debt accumulated from April through September 2020, their Budget and Legislative Analyst estimated the City would need about two to four …

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Nina Riggio (Photography)
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A Year in a School Bus: Amid COVID-19, A Family Finds Freedom Traveling the American West

Paula, 39, and Max have lived in their 35-foot skoolie—a term for school buses which have been renovated into small mobile homes—for nearly a year, often traveling across public Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land in Arizona, California, …

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