EVICTIONS
“Once an eviction is filed, it immediately results in a scarlet E for a tenant or a renter.”
- Emily Benfer, law professor at Wake Forest School of Law
ABOUT THIS SERIES
The coronavirus pandemic shut down huge chunks of the economy, costing millions of Americans their jobs -- and paychecks. The federal government put in place a limited eviction ban to keep them from joining the ranks of the homeless. A national consortium of student reporters spent the summer finding out whether the moratorium worked as intended.
The stories here are the result of a collaboration among the University of Maryland’s Howard Center for Investigative Journalism, Big Local News at Stanford University, Boston University and the University of Arkansas.
The project was supported by a grant from the Pulitzer Center, the Scripps Howard Foundation and the Park Foundation. It was produced by the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism and Capital News Service at the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism, which honors the late news industry executive and pioneer Roy W. Howard.
The stories here are the result of a collaboration among the University of Maryland’s Howard Center for Investigative Journalism, Big Local News at Stanford University, Boston University and the University of Arkansas.
The project was supported by a grant from the Pulitzer Center, the Scripps Howard Foundation and the Park Foundation. It was produced by the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism and Capital News Service at the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism, which honors the late news industry executive and pioneer Roy W. Howard.