Eviction Moratoria and Housing Policy: Federal, State, Commonwealth, and Territory, [United States], 2020-2022 (ICPSR 39468)
Version Date: Dec 9, 2025 View help for published
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Emily Benfer, Wake Forest University;
Robert Koehler, Columbia University
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR39468.v1
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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. Researchers developed a dynamic, novel dataset consisting of over 50 indicators which captured the temporal and substantive features of these moratoria and renter-supportive measures. To confirm that the dataset was complete, researchers provided state governors and court officials with lists of collected orders from their states and incorporated any needed additions. From this validated dataset, researchers created a time series cross-sectional dataset that tracked changes in a state's overall eviction moratoria and supportive measures over time.
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- This study is a curated version of a study on OpenICPSR. For more information, please visit the study page on the OpenICPSR website.
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For a complete description of the variables tracked, please see the codebooks included with the dataset.
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Dataset 1 (Moratoria Dataset) contains variables on protections under federal moratoria related to eviction during COVID-19.
Dataset 2 (Supportive Measures Dataset) contains variables on supportive measures for tenants such as utilities shutoff moratoriums, reporting bans, grace periods, late fee bans, rent raises, and other variables.
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2025-12-09
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2025-12-09 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
- Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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