At the height of the pandemic, the number of renters most vulnerable to displacement reached record levels in the US. But homelessness didn’t explode: In fact, the number of people entering homeless shelters declined during that same time period, according to new reporting from federal housing officials. And the “eviction tsunami” that many housing advocates feared never materialized.

In a new analysis, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development tries to explain why, showing how the federal government used eviction moratorium orders and emergency rental assistance, among other resources, to stop millions of people from losing their housing during the Covid-19 crisis. While the emergency response did not solve the housing problems for the nation’s least-well-off households, it did hold off a tidal wave of homelessness and despair.

To continue reading the rest of the article, please click on the source link below:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-22/how-covid-era-housing-relief-prevented-an-eviction-wave