Coalition Releases ‘Policy Brief: Housing stability strategy needed to overcome Indiana’s disproportionate outcomes in COVID’s second year’

INDIANAPOLIS, IN – The Hoosier Housing Needs Coalition announces the release of ‘Policy Brief: Housing stability strategy needed to overcome Indiana’s disproportionate outcomes in COVID’s second year.’ Two years after the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the need for housing stability relief continues to far outpace the aid reaching Hoosier households who have been disproportionately affected by evictions and housing instability. To overcome emergency rental assistance (ERA) outcomes that place Indiana behind most neighbors and disproportionately disadvantage Black and brown Hoosiers and low-income families with children, Indiana policymakers must be all-in on an “all of the above” housing stability strategy.

New data from the U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Treasury, EvictionLab, and National Equity Atlas reveals that low rates of emergency rental assistance distribution, poor demographic data reporting, and inequitable results combined with ongoing high eviction filing rates across the state will leave Hoosier households vulnerable without such a strategy.

See the full article here, https://housing4hoosiers.org/2022/06/01/coalition-releases-policy-brief-housing-stability-strategy-needed-to-overcome-indianas-disproportionate-outcomes-in-covids-second-year/