Who Has Been Evicted and Why?

Andrew Haughwout, Haoyang Liu () and Xiaohan Zhang

No 20200708b, Liberty Street Economics from Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Abstract: More than two million American households are at risk of eviction every year. Evictions have been found to cause prolonged homelessness, worsened health conditions, and lack of credit access. During the COVID-19 outbreak, governments at all levels implemented eviction moratoriums to keep renters in their homes. As these moratoriums and enhanced income supports for unemployed workers come to an end, the possibility of a wave of evictions in the second half of the year is drawing increased attention. Despite the importance of evictions and related policies, very few economic studies have been done on this topic. With the exception of the Milwaukee Area Renters Study, evictions are rarely measured in economic surveys. To fill this gap, we conducted a novel national survey on evictions within the Housing Module of the Survey of Consumer Expectations (SCE) in 2019 and 2020. This post describes our findings.

Keywords: evictions; homeownership; credit access; diversity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-07-08
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