updates

The federal government doesn’t track evictions and there is no national mandate for courts to collect it, so we made a request for eviction data in all 50 states. Spoiler: In many places, it wasn’t easy to find these numbers.

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As the United States moves past the COVID-19 pandemic, low-income renters face a deeply inhospitable housing market. We investigate how this affected eviction rates in 2023.

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Most research to date has focused on the impact of eviction on cities and suburbs. Our new paper documents the many families in rural counties facing eviction every year, a crisis disproportionately affecting Black communities.

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While many groups experienced higher-than-normal rates of death during the pandemic, the excess mortality of renters threatened with eviction was ten times higher than that of the general population.

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An oil boom in Williams County, ND brought prosperity for many. But it also brought suffering, as many residents saw the cost of living grow faster than their income.

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We analyzed millions of records to understand the direct link between rent burden, eviction, and mortality. Our research shows that rising rent costs and evictions have important consequences for the risk of premature death.

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Through a groundbreaking collaboration with the U.S. Census Bureau, we are able to demonstrate, for the first time, the sheer number of people facing the threat of eviction, the scale of racial/ethnic disparities in eviction risk, and the …

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