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The coronavirus pandemic is making the US housing crisis even worse

  • Written by Isabel Solange Muñoz, Assistant Professor of Geography, University of Tennessee
A pedestrian walks past graffiti in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood.AP Photo/Ted S. Warren

Ninety-five percent of Americans have been ordered to stay at home to reduce the spread of the coronavirus.

As a human geographer who studies experiences of home and housing, I find a certain irony to these orders, particularly when wrapped in messages...

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