April 2022 - Since the pandemic first began to sweep across the world two years ago, nearly 80 million people have been infected in the U.S. and more than 975,000 have died (CDC, 2022a). People facing housing insecurity have suffered disproportionately from the effects of the virus. Those in overcrowded housing or homeless shelters are at greater risk of infection due to their inability to socially distance (Ghosh et al., 2021; Emeruwa et al., 2020; Chapman et al., 2020). People experiencing homelessness who have COVID-19 face a higher mortality rate than those in the general population (Leifheit et al., 2021a).

Housing insecurity is disproportionately experienced by people of color, one of the many reasons they are

at higher risk of becoming infected with the virus, being hospitalized, and dying from COVID-19 (CDC, 2022b).