evidence: Five years and one pandemic later, housing insecurity or the lack of stable shelter, remains a significant issue for Milwaukee and other American cities. Eviction filings and orders have slowed because of eviction moratoriums and rental assistance programs created during the COVID-19 pandemic. [...] In the five years since Matthew Desmond visited Marquette University Law School, the city has seen several notable changes in its housing market, some of which we’ve written about in this newspaper. Downtown apartment construction is booming, but there’s also a new emphasis on affordable housing in the city. There continues to be an exodus of city employees to the suburbs now that the residency requirement has ended. Owner-occupancy of single-family homes in Milwaukee finally stabilized last year after a decade of decline. The number of rental properties owned by city residents has fallen, with more properties owned by landlords who live in the suburbs or out of state.