An interview with Pierce Greenberg and Erin Feichtinger.
The Social Science Data Lab at Creighton University and local nonprofit Together released a report in March summarizing eviction trends in Nebraska in 2020. The authors — Creighton professor Pierce Greenberg, Together employees Erin Feichtinger and Danni Smith, and Creighton undergraduate Emily Burke — found a nearly 45 percent drop in eviction filings last year compared to the previous four years.
But those numbers don’t tell the full story, say Greenberg and Feichtinger. Though the decrease can almost certainly be attributed to the various eviction moratoria, they say local and federal governments could have done more when the pandemic was at its worst to keep people in their homes.