Eviction Rates Have Reached Historic Levels—The Rent Is Clearly Too Damn High

By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated June 26, 2023

America is facing a new epidemic: an eviction crisis. After a brief moratorium during the COVID-19 pandemic, “eviction filings by landlords have come roaring back” and “[h]omelessness, as a result, is rising.”  

Research specialist Daniel Grubbs-Donovan said, “Protections have ended, the federal moratorium is obviously over, and emergency rental assistance money has dried up in most places.”

“Across the country, low-income renters are

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