Housing insecurity during the pandemic is a huge health story in every community. "One study has attributed thousands of deaths in Texas alone to evictions because displaced families have been forced into more crowded living situations where they caught and spread COVID-19," NPR correspondent Chris Arnold wrote in an articlelate last year.
Even before COVID-19, one in four tenants nationwide spent more than half their income on rent, 1 million were evicted a year, and about half a million people experienced homelessness. Now, in the face of massive job loss and financial distress, an estimated 10 million households are behind on rent.
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