With evictions on the rise due to COVID-19, comedic actor and TV host John Oliver uses irony to discuss the long struggle to obtain and sustain adequate housing in the United States, why it’s gotten worse in recent months and how to prevent an impending crisis.

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Themes
• Advocacy
• Basic services
• Disability
• Disaster mitigation
• Displacement
• Epidemics, diseases
• ESC rights
• Financing
• Health
• Homeless
• Housing crisis
• Housing rights
• Indigenous peoples
• Livelihoods
• Low income
• National
• Property rights
• Public / social housing
• Public policies
• Public programs and budgets
• Research
• Security of tenure
• Subsidies
• Tenants
• Unemployed