The beginning of the month means the rent is due. But what if you lost your job during the COVID-19 pandemic?

This hour, we talk to a housing advocate about what protections exist for Connecticut residents who can’t afford housing costs right now. And we learn about the lasting consequences for residents who are at risk for eviction if the state and federal governments don’t provide additional protections.

Later, we listen back to a conversation with Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning book Evicted started a national conversation about America’s eviction crisis. How do evictions disrupt --  not just families -- but entire communities?

GUESTS:

• Greg Kirschner - Legal director of the Connecticut Fair Housing Center
• Matthew Desmond - Professor of Sociology at Princeton University and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. He is the principal investigator at the Eviction Lab at Princeton
• Erin Kemple – Executive Director of the Connecticut Fair Housing Center
• Milagros Ortiz - Tenant at the Clay Arsenal Renaissance Apartments in Hartford, CT

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