[tfehring]

Why would evictions impact the poverty rate? Isn't it just the share of people who fall under a certain level of income, without directly accounting for things like housing insecurity?

[Ensorceled]

It's hard to maintain employment if you are evicted from your home, especially if you have a family. You have to move in with extended family/friends and, thus, may no longer be within commuting distance of your job.

Or you could end up homeless/couch surfing and that is also very difficult for staying employed.

[girvo]

I can tell you that for myself, being homeless made keeping my job difficult for a hundred reasons. On top of that, it drove me into a deep depressive episode, which impacts my ability to work severely, and I turned to drug use in a big way, which obviously lead to my situation becoming even more difficult.

[ak217]

I think most directly, when people get evicted, they are at greater risk of losing their job.

[iNate2000]

Indeed.

Those of us with stable housing take a lot of things for granted.

“I’ll just shower at the gym.” Turns a shower from a 20-minute operation to more than an hour.

Food storage and preparation.

Clothing storage, care, and maintenance.

Not to mention that getting homeless in the first place happens because of lack of resources (or poor allocation of barely sufficient resources).

Then on top of that, an eviction on your credit report makes it harder to find a new place.

And finding a place is hard and time-consuming. Not even taking into account the deposits and other costs.