GAO report on eviction data

Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to Congress a report that examines— (1) with respect to eviction moratoriums during the COVID–19 pandemic— (A) how eviction moratoriums have contributed to housing stability; (B) an analysis of formal and informal evictions during the periods in which the moratoriums were in effect; and (C) an economic analysis of how the eviction moratoriums saved public funds, such as by reducing shelter costs; (2) whether women, Black, Hispanic, and other minority renters disproportionately faced eviction during the COVID–19 pandemic, and an accounting of the disproportionate risk of eviction faced by veterans, children, the elderly, and individuals living with disabilities during the COVID–19 pandemic; (3) the barriers that exist to collecting the data related to paragraphs (1) and (2); (4) the barriers that exist to collecting, digitizing, and standardizing data from the beginning to the end of the eviction process, such as pre-eviction information, the renter’s race or ethnicity, age and gender, as well as the composition of the household and landlord data; and (5) a study of the relationship between emergency rental assistance distribution and eviction patterns, as well as how emergency rental assistance affected evictions, during the periods in which the eviction moratoriums were in effect during the COVID–19 pandemic.