Eviction Moratoria and Housing Policy: Federal, State, Commonwealth, and Territory, [United States], 2020-2022

New COVID measures archive data release from PIs Emily Benfer and Robert Koehler. For this study, researchers employed longitudinal policy surveillance to comprehensively describe state responses to the eviction crisis resulting from the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic and continuing through the end of substantive state intervention. The study relied on an exhaustive collection of all emergency orders and legislation that controlled the eviction process, related to protections under federal moratoria, or provided support to tenants and that were issued by state governors, courts, and legislative bodies between March 13, 2020 and March 1, 2022.