Eviction Moratoria & Housing Policy: Federal, State, Commonwealth, and Territory

Researchers employed longitudinal policy surveillance to comprehensively describe state responses to the eviction crisis resulting from the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic and continuing through the end of substantive state intervention. The study relied on an exhaustive collection of all emergency orders and legislation that controlled the eviction process, related to protections under federal moratoria, or provided support to tenants and that were issued by state governors, courts, and legislative bodies between March 13, 2020 and March 1, 2022. Researchers developed a dynamic, novel dataset consisting of over 50 indicators which captured the temporal and substantive features of these moratoria and renter-supportive measures. To confirm that the dataset was complete, researchers provided state governors and court officials with lists of collected orders from their states and incorporated any needed additions. From this validated dataset, researchers created a time series cross-sectional dataset that tracked changes in a state’s overall eviction moratoria and supportive measures over time.  For a complete description of the variables tracked, please see the codebooks included with the dataset.

研究人员采用纵向政策监察手段，全面描绘了自COVID-19疫情爆发至实质性国家干预结束期间，各州对驱逐危机的应对措施。该研究依托于对所有紧急命令和立法的详尽收集，这些命令和立法包括控制驱逐流程、与联邦延期令下的保护措施相关，或为租户提供支持的措施，并由州长、法院和立法机构于2020年3月13日至2022年3月1日间发布。研究人员构建了一个动态且创新的包含超过50个指标的数据集，这些指标捕捉了这些延期令和租户支持措施的时间性和实质性特征。为确保数据集的完整性，研究人员向州长和法院官员提供了其州内收集到的命令清单，并吸纳了任何必要的补充。基于这一验证后的数据集，研究人员创建了一个时间序列横断面数据集，用以追踪各州在驱逐延期令和支持措施方面的整体变化。欲了解追踪变量的完整描述，请参阅数据集附带的相关代码簿。