Health Starts at Home: The Crisis of Rising Evictions During a Pandemic

Evictions could affect community safety as well: While public health authorities emphasize the need to practice social distancing, evictions instead result in families having to crowd into homeless shelters, move in with other families, and take up unsafe jobs to make rent. In these situations, it is far harder to socially distance, putting more people at risk, and exacerbating infection rates. Epidemiologists have modeled the impact of continued evictions, finding that in some cases, even a two percent eviction rate could increase the cumulative COVID-19 prevalence by fifty percent or more.

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