Can Eviction Moratoriums Stop The Bleeding?

On the Media

• Episode: Can Eviction Moratoriums Stop The Bleeding?
• Website: On the Media
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• Duration: 00:14:16
• Published: 2020-03-18 17:00

From Miami to Massachusetts, from San Francisco to Pittsburgh to New York, housing courts are closing up and marshals are standing down as various eviction moratoriums provide at least one answer to the mounting economic uncertainties caused by the coronavirus. In this podcast extra, Brooke and Matthew Desmond (Evicted author and producing partner of our series, The Scarlet E: Unmasking America's Eviction Crisis) discuss whether the policy changes we've seen can avert a total housing catastrophe — and whether the present crisis might cause us to ask deeper questions about housing affordability in America.