Pandemic-Related Vacant Property Initiatives

Abstract

With the rapid spread of COVID-19 in homeless shelters across the country, policies that provide socially distanced housing for society's most vulnerable have been widely implemented. Hotels-that would have sat vacant while the economy was shut down-were temporarily repurposed to house the homeless. Once COVID-19 pandemic became an ongoing, rather than a short-term health crisis, governments began working to find longer-term housing solutions, like the ones featured in this article.

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Keywords: decommodification of housing

JEL Classification: K11, H71