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

Eviction Filings, First Eighteen Months of Pandemic Relative to Historical Average

Source: Authors’ calculations based on baseline and pandemic-era eviction filing data collected through the ETS (Hepburn, Louis, and Desmond 2020a).

Absolute Reduction in Eviction Case Filings, by Baseline Eviction Filing Rate

Source: Authors’ calculations based on baseline and pandemic-era eviction filing data collected through the ETS (Hepburn, Louis, and Desmond 2020a).

Median Eviction Filing Rates Prior to and During the COVID-19 Pandemic by Neighborhood Racial-Ethnic Majority

Source: Authors’ calculations based on American Community Survey, 2015–2019 (U.S. Census Bureau 2020) and baseline and pandemic-era eviction filing data collected through the ETS (Hepburn, Louis, and Desmond 2020a).

Median Eviction Filing Rates Prior to and During the COVID-19 Pandemic by Neighborhood Median Annual Household Income

Source: Authors’ calculations based on American Community Survey, 2015–2019 (U.S. Census Bureau 2020) and baseline and pandemic-era eviction filing data collected through the ETS (Hepburn, Louis, and Desmond 2020a).

Eviction Filing Rates by Defendant Race-Ethnicity and Gender, Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Source: Author’s calculations based on American Community Survey, 2015–2019 (U.S. Census Bureau 2020); Mullen 2018; Wais 2016; Gender API 2022; Khanna, Imai, and Jin 2017; and baseline and pandemic-era eviction filing data collected through the ETS (Hepburn, Louis, and Desmond 2020a).

Event Study of Enactment of Strong Moratoria, 2020–21

Source: Authors’ calculations.