In June of this year, Katherine Lucas McKay partnered with the COVID-19 Eviction Defense Project to produce research stating that one in five of the 110 million Americans who live in renter households are at risk of eviction by the end of September 2020. Below you can access the resulting media coverage.
- “US faces ‘avalanche of evictions’ as rent protections expire” by Vanessa Yurkevich for CNN Business, 6/20/20
- “23 million Americans could face eviction in coming months” by Aimee Picchi for CBS News, 7/13/20
- “Coronavirus rent freezes are ending — and a wave of evictions will sweep America” by Emily A. Benfer for NBC News, 6/22/20
- “Evictions Are About to Explode and Fuel the Spread of Coronavirus” by Jacob Jarvis for Newsweek, 7/9/20
- “More than 20 million renters could soon be evicted” by Julia Falcon for HousingWire, 7/13/20
- “Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae Extend Multifamily Forbearance, Offer Relief To Landlords And Renters” by Dima Williams for Forbes, 6/28/20
- “Around 20 million renters could face eviction by the end of September because of the pandemic —with the impact falling heavily on Black and Hispanic renters” by Sarah Al-Arshani for Business Insider, 7/7/20
- “Public health experts worry that thousands in Arizona may be in trouble as eviction moratorium nears expiration while cases still surge” by Sarah Al-Arshani for Business Insider, 7/16/20
- “From Crisis to Crisis— When the Eviction Moratorium ends in September, how many Californians will be at risk of eviction?” by S. E. Williams for Black Voice News, 7/15/20
- “More than 20 million people face eviction by the end of September as GOP threatens to cut aid: study” by Igor Derysh for Salon, 7/11/20
- “My Landlord Is Threatening To Evict Me During A Health And Economic Crisis. What Do I Do?” by Vanessa Wong for Buzzfeed News, 6/30/20
- “Maryland families fear ‘tsunami’ of evictions when courts reopen and federal aid dries up at the end of July” by Talia Richman and Wilborn P. Nobles III for the Baltimore Sun, 7/2/20
- “Discussing evictions with US Sen. Tina Smith” by One News Page, 7/9/20
- “How eviction is feeding—and being fed by—the pandemic” by Kat Eschner for Popular Science, 7/15/20
- “Renters Threaten US Actual Property Market, 20 Million People Face Eviction” by Yuuma Nakamura for FinTech Zoom, 7/8/20
- “Experts: post-pandemic eviction crisis could be an ‘avalanche’” by Tyler Paley for WTOL 11, 7/8/20
- “1 in 5 Americans could be evicted by Sept 30 as COVID-19 economic crisis grows worse” by Sarah K. Burris for Raw Story, 6/30/20
- “Pandemic’s Economic Downturn Puts Renters at Immediate Risk of Eviction” by Brenda Sapino Jeffreys for Globe St, 7/14/20
- “Renters Concerned As Eviction Moratorium End Date Draws Closer” by Steve Goldstein for Kjzz, 7/15/20
- “23 million Americans at risk of eviction” by Mike Whealtley for RealtyBizNew, 7/16/20