Housing precarity & the COVID-19 pandemic: impacts of utility disconnection and eviction moratoria on infections and deaths across us counties

The COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated the adoption of a number of policies that aim to reduce the spread of the disease by promoting housing stability. Housing precarity, which includes both the risk of eviction and utility disconnections or shut offs, reduces a person's ability to abide by so...

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Otros Autores: Jowers, Kay (autor)
Formato: RE
Idioma:inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA National Bureau of Economic Research 2021
Colección:Nber Working Paper Series
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Acceso en línea:https://infonavit.smart-ed.mx/cgi-bin/koha/opac-retrieve-file.pl?id=1dd19e2bcf0e967b42a6c16a36ab6aaa

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520 |a The COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated the adoption of a number of policies that aim to reduce the spread of the disease by promoting housing stability. Housing precarity, which includes both the risk of eviction and utility disconnections or shut offs, reduces a person's ability to abide by social distancing orders and comply with hygiene recommendations. Our analysis quantifies the impact of these various economic policies on COVID-19 infection and death rates using panel regression techniques to control for a variety of potential confounders. We find that policies that limit evictions are found to reduce COVID-19 infections by 3.8% and reduce deaths by 11%. Moratoria on utility disconnections reduce COVID-19 infections by 4.4% and mortality rates by 7.4%. Had such policies been in place across all counties (i.e., adopted as federal policy) from early March 2020 through the end of November 2020, our estimated counterfactuals show that policies that limit evictions could have reduced COVID-19 infections by 14.2% and deaths by 40.7%. For moratoria on utility disconnections, COVID-19 infections rates could have been reduced by 8.7% and deaths by 14.8%. Housing precarity policies that prevent eviction and utility disconnections have been effective mechanisms for decreasing both COVID-19 infections and deaths. 
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