UCLA-Led Study Finds COVID Deaths Increased When Eviction Moratoriums Expired
By City News Service
Published July 26, 2021
“It’s a good time for the United States to really re-look at our housing policies,” Diana Yentel, the nonprofit National Low-Income Housing Coalition president, told Yahoo! News. “And see what changes need to be made post-pandemic or even during the pandemic to help those who were already struggling.”
COVID-19 death rates increased significantly when states lifted eviction moratoriums that were put in place to protect renters who could not make payments during the pandemic, according to a UCLA-led study released today.
According to the study, published in the American Journal of Epidemiology, the number of deaths attributed to COVID-19 was five times higher in the four months after eviction moratoriums expired, and the number of COVID- 19 cases doubled.
Federal judge says CDC didn t have power to order national eviction ban
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Moving trucks, workers and boxes dominate a street in New York City on May 27, 2020, shortly after Gov. Andrew Cuomo ordered that renters cannot be thrown out for nonpayment due to hardship from the coronavirus crisis. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo
March 11 (UPI) A federal judge in Ohio has ruled that federal regulators overstepped their authority in ordering a national moratorium on rental evictions after the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic last year.
U.S. District Court Judge Philip Calabrese ruled in favor Wednesday of a group of property owners who argued in October that the ban, ordered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was an overreach.