Homeless ranks will grow when renters are evicted
Heather Bornstein
Heather Bornstein is a rising third-year law student in the Medical Legal Partnership Clinic at the University of Memphis.
Allen Heaston
Allen Heaston is a recent graduate of the University of Tennessee College of Law, and served in the UT Legal Clinic.
If America wants to contain the coronavirus, it is necessary to avoid creating a revolving door of aggravating conditions, such as homelessness. Displacing renters amid the coronavirus outbreak could intensify the transmission of the disease.
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