Evictions and Psychiatric Treatment

Stable housing is critical for health, employment, education, and other social outcomes. Evictions reﬂect housing instability that is experienced by millions of Americans each year. Psychiatric disorders are proximate determinants of evictions. We estimate the eﬀect of local access to psychiatric treatment on evictions. We combine data on the number of psychiatric treatment centers that oﬀer outpatient and residential care within a county with eviction outcomes in a two-way ﬁxed-eﬀects framework. We ﬁnd that ten additional psychiatric treatment centers in a county leads to a reduction of 2.1% in the eviction rate. nation-level in later years. centers a a primary of SUD MHD treatment, or a mix of both SUD and MHD treatment in our We make these to match CBP centers as closely as