The federal ban on evictions is set to expire at the end of July. But 14% of renters are still behind on their payments and in big cities rent is up by 24% from last year.
The Treasury Department is set to announce that it distributed $1.5 billion in rental assistance this month, but states and cities have struggled with getting that assistance to renters and landlords over the past year. Meanwhile, housing and rent prices have been skyrocketing, making affordable housing harder to find.
For more on this, The Takeaway spoke to Julian Castro, former Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and Peter Hepburn, assistant professor of Sociology at Rutgers University-Newark and part of the Eviction Lab at Princeton University.