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Bonnie Bertram, Anne Checler, Erik …

August 27, 2022

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Facing Eviction

Why have some American families struggled to keep their homes during the COVID pandemic, despite a federal ban on evictions? Facing Eviction offers an intimate look at the United States’ affordable housing crisis through the eyes of …

Read more at PBS Frontline

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Bryce Covert

July 5, 2022

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After the Eviction Moratorium

The long-predicted nationwide wave of lockouts is finally cresting. A report from New York City housing court

Read more at The New Republic

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Eric Peterson

June 30, 2022

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Utah helped landlords, not renters. How that’s changing.

In 2021, a spokesperson for the Department of the Treasury was surprised to learn that Utah was using federal Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) money to pay landlords’ legal bills for evicting renters.

Read more at The Utah Investigative Journalism Project

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Kristen Consillio

April 6, 2022

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Eviction cases on the rise as Hawaii tenants struggle to stay in their homes

Amy Rivo said she was given a notice to evict as soon as the moratorium ended in October. "They were essentially telling me I would be homeless a week before Christmas," she said.

Read more at KITV

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Lori Teresa Yearwood

March 14, 2022

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Evictions Are Back. Black Renters Are Suffering the Most—Again.

In Indianapolis, like many American cities, the long shadow of segregation continues to punish Black neighborhoods—to the disproportionate benefit of white landlords.

Read more at The New Republic

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Tina Kelley

March 11, 2022

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When Attending College Means Losing Your Home

Nearly 60 percent of U.S. college students reported struggling to meet basic needs—including food and housing—during the past year, with Black and Latinx students both more likely to need aid and less likely to get it.

Read more at The Progressive

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Lori Teresa Yearwood

December 29, 2021

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The Bill for My Homelessness Was $54,000

Coming back to the world of the housed meant first having to navigate an obstacle course of fees and fines that I had incurred while homeless.

Read more at The New York Times

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