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Eviction and Childcare

This fall, a groundbreaking study from the Eviction Lab found that the group most at risk for evictions in the U.S. is small children. Households with children are twice as likely to receive an eviction filing as households without children, and every year more than 25 percent of Black children living in rental households receive an eviction filing. A major reason for this disturbing finding is childcare costs are so high that parents and caregivers are forced to make the impossible choice between paying for care and paying the rent.

New America’s Future of Land and Housing program and Better Life Lab sat down with Eviction Lab Director Carl Gershenson to unpack the study, discuss care-related drivers of child evictions, and surface solutions that can keep more children stably housed.

Our work below aims to track eviction’s impact on children in the U.S. and how this informs how we think about childcare.

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The True Victims of the U.S. Evictions Crisis (CNN)
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The True Victims of the U.S. Evictions Crisis (CNN)

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FLH Director Yuliya Panfil and Brigid Schulte, director of New America’s Better Life Lab, co-wrote an OpEd for CNN highlighting recent findings that children under five years old are the group most likely to face eviction across the United States. Panfil and Schulte ask: are sky high childcare costs, and poor availability of care, to blame for this disturbing trend?

Read the full article here.

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