Protecting the Most Vulnerable: Policy Response and Eviction Filing Patterns During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Peter Hepburn; Jacob Haas; Nick Graetz; Renee Louis; Devin Q. Rutan; Anne Kat Alexander; Jasmine Rangel; Olivia Jin; Emily Benfer; Matthew Desmond

doi:10.7758/RSF.2023.9.3.08

Article Information

vol. 9 no. 3 186-207

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2023.9.3.08

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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

Print ISSN

2377-8253

Online ISSN

2377-8261

History

Published online May 4, 2023.

© 2023 Russell Sage Foundation. Hepburn, Peter, Jacob Haas, Nick Graetz, Renee Louis, Devin Q. Rutan, Anne Kat Alexander, Jasmine Rangel, Olivia Jin, Emily Benfer, and Matthew Desmond. 2023. “Protecting the Most Vulnerable: Policy Response and Eviction Filing Patterns During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 9(3): 186–207. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2023.9.3.08. Support for the Eviction Tracking System is provided by the Russell Sage Foundation, the C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute, and the Pew Charitable Trusts. The Eviction Lab is supported by the JPB and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundations, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under Award No. P2CHD047879. Direct correspondence to Peter Hepburn, at peter.hepburn@rutgers.edu. 618 Hill Hall, 360 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Newark, NJ 07103, United States. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Author Information

Peter Hepburn^a,
Jacob Haas^b,
Nick Graetz^c,
Renee Louis^d,
Devin Q. Rutan^e,
Anne Kat Alexander^f,
Jasmine Rangel^g,
Olivia Jin^h,
Emily Benferⁱ and
Matthew Desmond^j

^aAssistant professor of sociology at Rutgers University-Newark, United States
^bResearch specialist at the Eviction Lab at Princeton University, United States
^cPostdoctoral fellow at the Eviction Lab at Princeton University, United States
^dGraduate student in the department of sociology at Stanford University, United States
^ePh.D. candidate in sociology and social policy at Princeton University, United States
^fLaw student at the University of Maryland Carey School of Law, United States
^gSenior housing associate at PolicyLink, United States
^hGraduate student in the department of sociology at Stanford University, United States
ⁱVisiting professor of clinical law at George Washington University Law School, United States
^jMaurice P. During Professor of Sociology at Princeton University, United States