Summary: <p>From Miami to Massachusetts, from San Francisco to Pittsburgh to New York, housing courts are closing up and marshals are standing down as various <a href="https://www.citylab.com/equity/2020/03/coronavirus-income-loss-paying-rent-eviction-housing-covid19/607426/">eviction moratoriums</a> provide at least one answer to the mounting economic uncertainties caused by the coronavirus. In this podcast extra, Brooke and <a href="https://twitter.com/just_shelter">Matthew Desmond</a> (<em>Evicted</em> author and producing partner of our series, <a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/articles/scarlet-e-unmasking-americas-eviction-crisis">The Scarlet E: Unmasking America's Eviction Crisis</a>) discuss whether the policy changes we've seen can avert a total housing catastrophe — and whether the present crisis might cause us to ask deeper questions about housing affordability in America.</p>
