Rental Eviction and the COVID-19 Pandemic Averting a Looming Crisis (2022) / Chapter Skim
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Goal 2: Inform: Improve the Collection of Data and the Use of Information to Support Affected Communities and Inform Policy Makers
Goal 2: Inform: Improve the Collection of Data and the Use of Information to Support Affected Communities and Inform Policy Makers
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Particularly important to this goal is that organizations working to reduce housing instability be aware of and understand the full complexity of the disparate and disproportionate harm suffered by BIPOC communities as a result of evictions and housing insecurity. Specifically, to improve and inform policy decisions around aid, outreach, and tenant protections, federal, state, and local stakeholders need accurate, timely, easily accessible, and detailed data on eviction filings, eviction actions, characteristics of renter households in distress, and health outcomes due to eviction and the aftereffects of the pandemic.
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Existing public data consolidation and aggregation efforts track eviction filings in a limited number of cities2 or focus on issues in specific localities.3 Indeed, approximately one-third of U.S. counties have no available annual eviction figures.4 This gap in information on evictions, their root causes, and the needs for assistance have led to underinformed decision making and administrative challenges for rental assistance organizations, and may result in program design flaws.
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Action 2A-2: HUD, public housing authorities, and local and state governments should establish a federal reporting standard for eviction data, as well as a program akin to the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program through which local police departments voluntarily submit their crime data to a state UCR program or directly to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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Once these first steps have been accomplished, Actions 2A-3 and 2A-4 cast a broader data collection net and include a retrospective analysis of the causes and consequences of evictions. This deeper dive into eviction data includes much more granular and comparative quantitative data beyond the basic needs described in Actions 2A-1 and 2A-2, as well as qualitative data that can help yield new understanding of eviction and housing instability more broadly.
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ACTORS: HUD, the U.S. Census Bureau, philanthropies, landlords and property managers, nonprofits, community-based organizations, public housing authorities, academics, and other researchers Action 2A-3: HUD, in collaboration with academics and other researchers, the Census Bureau, philanthropies, landlords and property managers, and communitybased organizations, should launch and coordinate a comprehensive quantitative research program that provides an ongoing accurate picture of housing insecurity in the United States based on existing data and data to be collected in the future.
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Action 2A-4: HUD, in collaboration with community-based organizations, public housing authorities, and academic and other research institutes, should launch and coordinate a comprehensive qualitative research program to identify, record, and analyze both short-term predictors of housing instability and more robust, long-term metrics to inform future policy. These indicators will be essential to monitoring eviction risks and inequities and responding rapidly to unmet housing needs in targeted, equitable, and community-centric ways.16 Such qualitative indicators may include tenant and landlord characteristics related to history, identity, or behavior and circumstances surrounding the initiation of eviction proceedings.
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Actionable and geographically granular information on the dashboard should grow as new types of information become available and should progressively include • national, state, county, and tract aggregated counts of eviction notices, filings, settlements, executions, and outcomes of tenants who vacated (either voluntarily or forcibly) , by characteristics of affected tenants and their landlords; • interactive breakouts explaining specific protection protocols, such as whether particular tenants are receiving federal housing assistance and under which programs, the reasons for eviction, and statistics on illegal evictions (e.g., those conducted in violation of COVID-19–related moratoriums)
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, in partnership with state agencies administering health care services, public health, and Medicare/Medicaid, as well as organizations and businesses in the health care sector, should fund research to compile strategies and ordinances aimed at mitigating the risk of COVID-19 in housing unstable populations across the nation, assess their effectiveness, and develop models or best practices that can be applied by local and state housing and public health authorities and organizations to mitigate the health effects of evictions throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath, including strategies for tracking risks and determining appropriate indicators for enacting and lifting such measures. Action 2B-2: HUD, HHS, and USDOL, in partnership with housing services, state agencies administering health care services, public health, Medicare/Medicaid, and unemployment insurance, as well as nonprofit organizations and the private health care sector, should publish guidelines on the conditions under which it is safe to remove such short-term COVID-19 protections as eviction moratoriums based on local health metrics and employment statistics.
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ACTORS: Academic or other research institutions funded by state and federal housing agencies and philanthropies, in partnership with tenants' rights groups and rental property developers, investors, and operators Action 2C-1: Academic or other research institutions should perform a gap analysis of all programs that provide housing support to identify needs, overlaps, inefficiencies, and gaps in outreach during the pandemic or other catastrophic events. Action 2C-2: Academic or other research institutions should use the data available on the proposed eviction dashboard (see Strategy 2A)
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