Across American Cities, Evictions Are Down

Below-average evictions during the pandemic suggest a housing crisis might look different than a projected “tsunami.”

Kriston Capps, a writer for CityLab, looks at how and why a housing crisis brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic may be different than expected.

While a surge of evictions has been predicted, it hasn’t hit, yet. That’s understandable because courthouses have been closed and a number of measures were enacted to help keep people in their homes. However, eviction moratoriums have expired, and many people were never protected in the first place.

“The data raises a question: What if there isn’t actually a tsunami? What if a wave of housing insecurity takes a different shape than some projections might have imagined?,” Capps writes.

Click on the link to read his story.