Time for an episode on the coronavirus pandemic! Don’t worry, in this episode we’ll give the virology discussion a break and explore how the pandemic has disrupted our communities. More specifically, we’ll take a look at the housing and eviction crisis as well as changes in primary and secondary education. To do this, we interviewed Tori Tavormina, a public health and business student at Johns Hopkins University who spent some time investigating the housing and eviction crisis in Texas. Phil and Michael will then share some of the lessons they learned about how the pandemic affected housing and education. Learn more in this episode of the Sci’more Podcast!

If you have questions for Tori, you can reach her at her email: ttavorm1@jhmi.edu.

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Links and Resources

List of Baltimore Sun articles about the housing/eviction crisis in Baltimore and Maryland: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1R3CHtlwoKlnGjZgqRoecDK6eKghzL3TkumAjF5OIwaw/edit#gid=0

Article about vacant homes in Baltimore: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/baltimore-has-more-than-16000-vacant-houses-why-cant-the-homeless-move-in/2015/05/12/3fd6b068-f7ed-11e4-9030-b4732caefe81_story.html

CDC timeline of the pandemic: https://www.cdc.gov/museum/timeline/covid19.html

World Bank Blog on pandemic learning loss: https://blogs.worldbank.org/developmenttalk/learning-loss-covid-19-mass-casualty

The Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford University: https://edopportunity.org/recovery

New York Times on California school district disparities: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/28/briefing/pandemic-learning-loss.html

Harvard Center for Education Policy Research on remote schooling: https://cepr.harvard.edu/files/cepr/files/5-4.pdf?m=1651690491

Associated Press on students who dropped out of school during the pandemic: https://apnews.com/article/covid-school-enrollment-missing-kids-homeschool-b6c9017f603c00466b9e9908c5f2183a

Resources that Tori shared with us

Map of tenant protections (by state/locality) from the National Low Income Housing Coalition: https://nlihc.org/tenant-protections

Federal rental assistance tracker from the National Low Income Housing Coalition: https://nlihc.org/era-dashboard

National map of eviction filing rates from the Eviction Lab at Princeton University: https://evictionlab.org/map/?m=modeled&c=p&b=efr&s=all&r=counties&y=2018&z=5.48&lat=40.26&lon=-78.33&lang=en

Federal resource detailing the moratoriums and CARES act: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IN/IN11516

Health Care for the Homeless, a housing and health care advocacy group in Baltimore (you can volunteer!): https://www.hchmd.org/

Baltimore Safe Haven, LGBTQ advocacy group and wellness center in Baltimore (you can volunteer!): https://www.baltimoresafehaven.org/

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Credits

Music: ‘Lucky Massive Dangerous’ by Speck

Editing: Michael Dryzer

Intro & Outro: Michael Dryzer

Interviewers: Philip Danziger and Michael Dryzer

Interviewees: Tori Tavormina

With help from other members of the Sci’more Podcast team!