Eviction filings skyrocketed during the COVID-19 pandemic.
However, four years after the start of the health crisis, data reveals that evictions are more than 50% higher than the pre-pandemic average due to a lack of pandemic resources, rising rents and the ongoing shortage of affordable housing.
On Monday’s edition of “Closer Look,” Peter Hepburn, an associate director at Princeton University’s Eviction Lab, discusses the rental market during the pandemic, the current state of the market and what the Eviction Lab’s tracker reveals about evictions in at least 10 states and more than 30 cities.
