Over the next few months, some states kept those eviction rules in place, and others let evictions start back up again. In March 2020, nearly all states blocked evictions. Research finds an eviction moratorium can slow viral spreadД®ven so, Leifheit has found in her research that these policies do help. There have been loopholes and workarounds, and some tenants certainly have had to leave their homes. States and cities issued their own eviction rules as well, some of which are still in place. 4, 2020, citing these public health concerns. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a nationwide eviction moratorium, effective Sept. One way policymakers have tried to curb that financial stress is by making it illegal, at least for a time, for landlords to evict tenants when they can't pay rent. 'People take on all kinds of work to avoid that eviction - and that might actually drive up the risk of COVID.' 'There's a saying that 'the rent eats first,' ' Leifheit says. One in every 4 renters has had trouble paying rent in the last several months, according to NPR's recent poll with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Rent is unaffordable for a lot of people right now. Her husband has had trouble breathing too, and he has had to use an asthma inhaler for the first time in years. Her dad was recently back in the hospital with pneumonia and congestive heart failure - aftereffects from COVID-19, Cuellar says. More than a year later, both men still have health problems. 'All the doctors were asking me, 'If they need to be ventilated, are you OK with that?' Thankfully, neither one of them had to be, but it was the most stressful time of my life.'

And then, three days later, my dad was having trouble breathing, so I took him to the same hospital,' she says. 'My husband went to the hospital first because he couldn't breathe. She and her toddler didn't have any symptoms, but both her husband and dad got very sick. Then, in July 2020, her husband got sick. 'His job did not take seriously, whatsoever,' Cuellar says. Cuellar's husband had fewer hours, but he was still going in to work at the pipe yard, so there was a risk he could bring the virus home. The young family broke their lease early and moved in with him. 'My dad - he doesn't like going to the hospital or anything. Losing a home 'increases your number of contacts in the community, and it increases the efficiency with which COVID can spread through a community.' Bringing the virus home They might move into a motel, so everyone's in closer quarters. 'A person loses their home they often move in with friends or family, they might enter a homeless shelter,' says Kathryn Leifheit, a postdoctoral fellow and epidemiologist at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. This story of families moving in together when their rent became unaffordable illustrates just one way that housing insecurity has connected to viral transmission during the pandemic. Shots - Health News NPR poll: The delta surge pushed Americans further behind in all walks of life So he invited the couple and their toddler to move in with him - even though he was in his mid-60s and having a houseful of people could put him more at risk of getting COVID-19.

Her dad, on the other hand, lives in town, and owns his home. And, of course, 'working with pipes is not really something you can do at home.' 'If there was going to be shutdowns, those shutdowns would be not paid,' she says. She'd lost her job as a home health aide for a boy with autism, and the news made it sound like most businesses were about to shut down, which would likely mean her husband would be getting fewer hours at the pipe yard where he works - or maybe even be laid off. It was still the early days of the coronavirus pandemic - March 2020 - and Cuellar and her husband were becoming anxious about whether they could afford the $1,200 rent for their house in Houston. In July 2020, the whole family tested positive for the coronavirus.Д®rica Cuellar's dad wasn't worried, even if she was. She and her husband were worried they wouldn't be able to afford the rent on their house in Houston with only one income. Erica Cuellar, her husband and her daughter moved in with her father in his home early in the pandemic, after she lost her job.

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