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Teen Vogue
The pandemic and recession will get worse, but we can fight to make things better.
Consider housing, one of the basic material needs for human survival. The pandemic’s onset sparked mass calls for rent cancellation or rent strikes, and the necessity of measures to protect the roofs over people’s heads hasn’t lessened even as businesses have shifted to virtual operations or even begun to reopen. As Emily Benfer, a law professor at Wake Forest School of Law and chair of the American Bar Association’s Task Force Committee on Eviction, told New York magazine’s Eric Levitz, over 20 million people across the country could be facing eviction between now and September — roughly double the number of people who had their homes foreclosed upon from 2006 to 2014, due at least in part to a mortgage crisis.
July 14, 2020
Housingwire
More than 20 million renters could soon be evicted
Emily Benfer, a law professor at Wake Forest School of Law and chair of the American Bar Association’s Task Force Committee on Eviction, said in a recent interview with CNBC that the possibility of so many people getting evicted is unprecedented. Benfer is also co-creator of the COVID-19 Housing Policy Scorecard with the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. “We can expect this to increase dramatically in the coming weeks and months, especially as the limited support and intervention measures that are in place start to expire. About 10 million people, over a period of years, were displaced from their homes following the foreclosure crisis in 2008. We’re looking at 20 million to 28 million people in this moment, between now and September, facing eviction.”
July 13, 2020
Houston Chronicle
How to stay honest when filing taxes in a pandemic year
“While people often want to cheat in certain cases if it would benefit them, they also want to think of themselves as honest,” said Christian Miller, professor of philosophy at Wake Forest. Miller explained that even small moral reminders can deter cheating.
July 13, 2020
KERA (Dallas)
Why science is so easy to dismiss
“Motivated reasoning” is deciding what evidence to believe based on a conclusion that one prefers. Is that why some people wear masks and others don’t? Philosophy professor Adrian Bardon, appeared on KERA’s “Think” podcast to talk about how identity, political affiliation, culture and rationalization have led to science denial.
July 13, 2020
New York Magazine
This recession is a bigger housing crisis than 2008
Between 2006 and 2014, about 10 million Americans lost their homes to the foreclosure crisis. Today, upwards of 20 million U.S. renters are poised to be evicted between now and September, according to Emily Benfer, a law professor at Wake Forest School of Law and chair of the American Bar Association’s Task Force Committee on Eviction.
July 13, 2020
Route Fifty
Millions Could Be Evicted As Moratoriums End, Experts Say
One model by the Covid-19 Eviction Defense Project estimated that as many as 23 million people could be vulnerable to eviction by the end of September. Housing expert Emily Benfer, a law professor at Wake Forest School of Law and chair of the American Bar Association’s Task Force Committee on Eviction, said there needs to be a national response. “As an immediate measure, we need a nationwide uniform moratorium on eviction, and it has to be coupled with financial assistance to ensure that the renter can stay housed without shifting the debt burden onto the property owner.”
July 13, 2020
Vox
Breonna Taylor was killed by police in March. The officers involved have not been arrested.
Wake Forest Law professor Ronald Wright, who specializes in the work of criminal prosecutors, told Vox that Cameron’s comments regarding defunding the police are worth watching because they are relevant to how Cameron handles the case. “If he starts to sound like an advocate for law enforcement, voicing broad support for police officers and defending them in general terms, that would make me wonder if he can evaluate charges fairly in this case. It is tough to convince the public that you will hold the police accountable for their wrongdoing if you never find anything to criticize in their work.”
July 13, 2020
Xinhua News
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced a restrictive new visa policy for international students, prompting over 180 U.S. colleges and universities to launch or join legal action against it. “This ICE policy will have far-reaching detrimental effects on our students and communities,” said Wake Forest President Nathan O. Hatch, who urged more schools to join the movement and to “resist new federal restrictions that threaten the education and wellbeing of international students.”
July 12, 2020
The New York Times
10 steps to take to try to prevent your own eviction
Emily Benfer, a professor at Wake Forest School of Law, has assembled a large amount of helpful information on Local actions, with the help of many law and public health students. It’s collected in a publicly available Google spreadsheet.
July 11, 2020
CNBC
Looming evictions may soon make 28 million homeless in U.S., expert says
Emily Benfer, a law professor at Wake Forest School of Law, began her career representing homeless families in Washington, D.C. Her first case involved a family that had been evicted after complaining to their landlord about the holes in their roof. One of the times she met with the family, one of the children, a 4-year-old girl, asked her: “Are you really going to help us?” Benfer struggled with how to answer. “I’d met them too late. I couldn’t stop the eviction. They had already been sleeping on the subway, and in other people’s homes. And you could see the effects it was taking on them.”
July 10, 2020
CNBC
As state moratoriums on evictions come to an end, about 28 million Americans could be thrown out of their homes, a leading expert on evictions said. For comparison, 10 million people in the U.S. lost their homes in the Great Recession. CNBC spoke with Emily Benfer, a law professor at Wake Forest School of Law and chair of the American Bar Association’s Task Force Committee on Eviction and co-creator of the Covid-19 Housing Policy Scorecard with the Eviction Lab at Princeton University, about the incoming crisis and what could be done to make it less devastating.
July 10, 2020
Oprah Magazine
Belonging, mentorship and race
Wake Forest psychology professor Shannon Brady was one of the researchers looking at the effects of a brief mentorship intervention on Black college students’ outcomes. Even just a one-hour session, said Brady, helps break down that hurdle because students see that their worries aren’t impossible to fix. “We give them a chance to reflect on it themselves, and broadly what we find is people find a way that it does connect.”
July 10, 2020