New project to study impacts of eviction on health

This project from Penn State, funded by a four-year, $1.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, affirms what we already know, “We know that evictions likely contribute to multiple causes of mortality, including chronic health conditions such as heart disease, which are primary drivers of racial disparities in mortality.” They will now “link the mortality data to eviction records filed prior to and during the pandemic, which will allow the team to analyze relationships between eviction filing and mortality by age, gender, race, and ethnicity. We’ll also be able to look at the effects of eviction prevention policies during the pandemic and estimate the number of deaths averted due to these policies,”