COVID-19 and Renter Distress

At the end of August 2020, as California’s state moratorium on evictions was set to expire, researchers from the UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies and the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate published a report that documents the hardships faced by LA tenants during the COVID-19 pandemic, and it traces those hardships overwhelmingly to lost work and wages as a result of the economic shutdown.

In this webinar, lead author Michael Manville goes into the key findings from the report with LA times staff writer Liam Dillon.

Read the report: https://www.lewis.ucla.edu/research/covid19-and-renter-distress/