Amid evacuations due to Hurricane Ida and western wildfires, the end of the eviction moratorium will also soon force some Americans out of their homes. Goldman Sachs analysts estimated that as many as 750,000 households could be evicted by the end of the year with a total of 3.5 million households behind on rent. A study co-authored by MIT researchers analyzed the changes in COVID-19 transmission based on the start and ends of state-level eviction moratoriums. The results were able to zoom in on the risk for people in different social circumstances  — in non-affluent areas the risk of contracting COVID-19 was 2.1 times greater 12 weeks after lifting the moratorium. Individuals with three or more co-morbidities and areas with high-rent burden both saw around 2.3 times greater risk after 12 weeks. According to the study, “eviction creates a cascade of events” that can lead to increased COVID-19 transmission, and since the data used is from 2020 before the delta variant became prevalent, the effects of ending an eviction moratorium while this form of the virus spreads has not yet been studied.