Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has shined a light on the importance of housing as a social determinant of health. To prevent millions of American renters from being evicted from their homes during the COVID-19 pandemic and potentially becoming homeless, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a temporary eviction ban order on September 4, 2020 that has currently been extended through June 30, 2021. This paper examines the rationale for the CDC temporary eviction ban order from a public health perspective. It then uses statistical techniques to explore the relationship between political and demographic variables and temporary eviction bans enacted in individual states during the pandemic. Results show a statistically significant relationship between political party control of the state legislature and temporary state eviction bans which suggests that partisanship has largely driven the use of temporary eviction bans as a policy response to COVID-19 at the state level.
Highlights
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued an order temporarily halting residential evictions in the United States effective September 4, 2020 through December 31, 2020, because an eviction moratorium can be an effective policy to prevent the spread of COVID-19 during a pandemic
Eviction bans help to protect public health, because people who experience homelessness as a result of a forced move become more likely to move into shared housing or congregate settings which places them at higher risk for contracting COVID-19
Based on an examination of temporary state eviction ban data found on the Nolo legal website on December 26, 2020, the authors analyzed state eviction bans enacted during the COVID-19 pandemic that lasted at least as long as December 31, 2020 which is the date the original CDC eviction ban order ended
Summary
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued an order temporarily halting residential evictions in the United States effective September 4, 2020 through December 31, 2020, because an eviction moratorium can be an effective policy to prevent the spread of COVID-19 during a pandemic. Organizations that provide homelessness services identify lack of timely and ongoing public health communications, difficulty maintaining effective infection control measures, lack of adequate personal protective equipment, and challenges to achieving effective client screening as problematic during the COVID-19 pan- demic (Perri et al, 2020). In order to both reduce the transmission of COVID-19 and reduce the spread of severe disease from COVID-19, the CDC issued a temporary eviction ban order. This required fitting a parsimonious set of independent variables to the binary outcome models
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