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The pandemic amplified the chronic shortage of affordable housing.

The survey shows half of America’s individual rental home owners have residents who have missed payments since March 2020.

In Philadelphia, homes in primarily Black neighborhoods are undervalued by an average of about $26,000, or 27%, compared with similar homes in primarily white neighborhoods.

New polling shows strong bipartisan support for policies including expunging or sealing eviction records and restricting their use.

The coronavirus pandemic precipitated an economic crisis disproportionately affecting renter households. Attempting to prevent a surge in evictions, policy make…

Stimulus checks have long been spent and the most comprehensive eviction and foreclosure moratoria are about to disappear entirely.

A state of housing report from the Metropolitan Housing Coalition highlights effects of the coronavirus pandemic on Black residents in Louisville.

Regional Federal Reserve banks regularly produce national and local research that can help contextualize stories, no matter your beat.

Billionaire Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman bragged that his firm “was a huge winner coming out of the global financial crisis” in 2008. Today, he’s boasting about his firm’s big earnings off high rents, even as millions of tenants face eviction.

Eviction rates in Wisconsin have been declining recently, according to state data, reaching their lowest level last month since May 2020. But those figures are expected to spike as the federal ban on evictions expires at the end of July.

The pace is picking up, but state and local officials have still only distributed a sliver of the renters aid allocated by Congress.

The second meeting is set for July 21, 10 days before the final eviction moratorium from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention expires White House officials said there is also an accountability goal: The hope is that a second meeting will motivate cities to actually follow through on their commitments.

The "nation's largest poor city" has adopted one of the most aggressive eviction diversion efforts in the U.S., in an effort one city council member said she hopes will remain post-pandemic.

Around 176,000 renter households had received assistance by the end of May, according to government data. However, more than 11 million renters are behind. “Public officials are more concerned about so-called scammers getting this money than they are about the people who truly need it, so they have made it nearly impossible for anyone to […]

There's a space inside Milwaukee's Community Advocates' brick building on North James Lovell Street that will soon operate as the Milwaukee Rental Housing Resource Center.

For the people who could be pushed to homelessness, an eviction event presents a risk to the tenant’s likelihood of securing future housing, as many landlords are unwilling to rent to a person with an eviction record. In this digital age, that eviction event can follow the person permanently, encouraging a poverty cycle. Landlords are […]

The federal government has provided more than $90 million in rent relief for Long Island renters and landlords, but only 1% has reached its

A deadly pandemic is no time to turn families out of their homes.

The CDC eviction moratorium is set to end July 31 and Wisconsin housing advocates fear a "tsunami" of evictions across the state. “We’re expecting a wave of evictions, eviction apocalypse, eviction tsunami, whatever you want to call it,” Amara Lang, a member of the Milwaukee Autonomous Tenants Union (MATU), says.

A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) exceeded its authority by temporarily halting evictions amid the pandemic.

The 12 groups – which includes NAR, bankers and landlords – applauded pandemic efforts but said it’s time for the eviction ban to end as scheduled on June 30, 2021.

The government and media relied on studies plagued by shoddy statistics to make the case for blocking evictions during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Yesterday, Virginia’s Secretary of Finance Aubrey Layne informed the Virginia House of Delegates’ Appropriations Committee that the Commonwealth of Vi

An Atlanta-based federal appeals court on Wednesday dealt another blow to landlords seeking to end a nationwide eviction freeze put in place amid the pandemic.

The Supreme Court’s decision to leave in place the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s unlawful, unconstitutional eviction moratorium poses a threat to the rule of law, federalism, and fundamental constitutional rights. Justice Brett Kavanaugh perplexingly agreed with the court majority to leave this moratorium in place, despite acknowledging that the CDC’s edict is indeed […]

It could, if it actually had the vast public health powers that the Biden administration claims it does.

State and local bans have been of some help in keeping renters in their homes, but the federal moratorium hasn't had much impact. Targeted cash relief and an abundant housing market are the best tenant protections.

The Biden administration is rushing to avoid millions of evictions during a brutally hot summer with a push to get billions of dollars in rental assistance out to tenants and landlords.