Acknowledgements

We would like to thank representatives of the following organizations, many of whom spoke with us as we developed the Eviction Tracking System. They were invaluable in collecting and providing context around these data.

• Arch City Defenders
• BASTA Austin
• Cea Weaver, Housing Justice for All
• Child Poverty Action Lab
• CMU CREATE Lab
• Community Advocates
• Community Legal Services of Arizona
• Connecticut Fair Housing Center
• Davida Finger, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law
• Drew Nolan, Alachua County Labor Coalition
• Elaina Johns-Wolfe
• Eviction Defense Project, Legal Action of Wisconsin
• Fair Housing Partnership of Greater Pittsburgh
• Franklin County Municipal Court
• Ginny Monk, CT Mirror
• Greater Boston Legal Aid
• Greater Hartford Legal Aid
• Hamilton County, OH Clerk of Courts
• Harvard Legal Aid Bureau
• Heartland Center for Jobs and Freedom
• Housing Data Coalition
• Housing Opportunities Made Equal Cincinnati
• Indiana Legal Services, Inc.
• Jacksonville Area Legal Aid
• Jen Rice, Houston Chronicle
• Jonathan Pyle, Philadelphia Legal Assistance
• Katy Ramsey, The University of Memphis School of Law
• Lancaster Stands Up
• Legal Aid Society of Cleveland
• Legal Aid Society of Columbus
• Legal Aid Society of Milwaukee
• Legal Aid of Northwest Texas
• Legal Aid of Southwest Ohio
• Legal Services of Eastern Missouri
• Lone Star Legal Aid
• Maricopa County Justice Courts
• Massachusetts Law Reform Institute
• Mediate Milwaukee
• Milwaukee Rental Housing Stability Coalition
• National Coalition for a Civil Right to Counsel
• National Housing Law Project
• National League of Cities
• National Low Income Housing Coalition
• Neighborhood Preservation, Inc.
• New Covenant Legal Services
• Ohio Legal Help
• Ohio Poverty Law Center
• OpenAddresses.io
• PolicyLink
• Red Door Collective
• Regrid
• Rhode Island Housing Authority
• Romina Ruiz-Goiriena, USA Today
• Sarah Holder, Bloomberg CityLab
• Shimberg Center for Housing Studies
• South Carolina Legal Services
• Stanford Legal Design Lab
• Texas Housers
• Texas Tenants Union
• Three Rivers Legal Aid
• Urban Economic Development Association of Wisconsin
• Wisconsin Policy Forum

Similar Resources

A number of other groups and organizations have, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, produced systems to track eviction filings in real-time. Below we list some of those resources.

Stanford University’s Legal Design Lab has also put together a similar, expansive list of data resources on housing, evictions, and court filings.

Do you know of any ongoing efforts to track eviction activity not listed here? Feel free to contact research@evictionlab.org.

Nationwide

• Legal Services Corporation (LSC) has built an eviction tracker with filing data on several states and hundreds of counties.
• The Eviction Research Network collects, analyzes, and maps eviction data while helping other researchers map and analyze theirs. They track and map eviction data in several states across the country.
• The Cleveland Federal Reserve’s Hal Martin gathered and published data in dozens of jurisdictions through the end of 2022.
• New America has developed the Foreclosure and Eviction Analysis Tool (FEAT), designed to allow communities to input and analyze their own eviction data.

Florida

• The Community Justice Project has been gathering and publishing data on eviction filings, writs of possession, and legal representation in Miami-Dade County.

Georgia

• A team led by Elora Raymond (Georgia Tech), Erik Woodworth (Atlanta Regional Commission), and Sarah Stein (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta) have constructed the Atlanta Region Eviction Tracker.

Idaho

• Idaho’s Judicial Branch has adashboard of civil case counts in the state that can allow users to see eviction case levels over time.

Indiana

• The Polis Center at Indiana University Indianapolis, with support from New America, has created a free, interactive state-wide eviction and foreclosure dashboard.
• The Indiana Supreme Court has a data portal with counts of annual eviction cases.

Illinois

• Lawyers’ Committee for Better Housing has been gathering eviction data in Chicago in years prior had been tracking eviction data in Chicago up through May 2021.

Maryland

• The Baltimore Banner has been periodically gathering and reporting on data of eviction case levels in Maryland.

Michigan

• Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan has reports and data tools on eviction in the state of Michigan.

New Mexico

• UNM law student Sam Taub built an eviction tracker for the state of New Mexico, which was updated through April 2022.

New York

• The Right to Counsel NYC Coalition maintains the Eviction Crisis Monitor in New York City.
• The New York State Unified Court System has created an eviction dashboard, updated on a weekly basis.
• NYU’s Furman Center has been tracking eviction filings and warrants in New York City.
• Gothamist has created an eviction tracker, reporting data on filing trends and hotspots in New York City.
• The Cornell ILR Eviction Filings Dashboard tracks and reports data on eviction filings in New York by county, zip code, and state legislative districts.

Oklahoma

• Open Justice Oklahoma has developed the Oklahoma Court Tracker, which counts evictions filed across the state of Oklahoma since March 15th, 2020.

Pennsylvania

• The Housing Alliance of Pennsylvania developed a report with detailed eviction data through 2021 in Pennsylvania.
• Carnegie Mellon University’s CREATE Lab monitored eviction filings in Pittsburgh, PA.
• Lancaster Stands Up has created an eviction dashboard tracking cases across Pennsylvania.

Tennessee

• The Red Door Collective has been tracking eviction activity in Davidson County.

Texas

• The Child Poverty Action Lab (CPAL) has built the North Texas Eviction Project to track eviction filings in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
• The Eviction Solidarity Network in Austin, TX has built a dashboard to track eviction filings in Travis County.
• January Advisors has built a dashboard tracking eviction cases in Harris County, TX.
• Texas Housers has developed an Eviction Diversion Tracker which details out emergency rent relief distribution and eviction cases throughout the state of Texas.

Virginia

• The RVA Eviction Lab has been tracking eviction activity in Virginia, producing detailed reports on eviction filings, eviction judgments, legal representation, and more.

Washington

• The King County Bar Association has an Eviction Tracker for King County, WA.

Wisconsin

• The Wisconsin Eviction Data Project was developed by the Wisconsin Interagency Council on Homelessness to track eviction filings and judgments in the state.
• The Track Milwaukee Evictions project developed out of a partnership between the Medical College of Wisconsin Institute for Health Equity’s Division of Epidemiology, Legal Action of Wisconsin, the Milwaukee City Attorney’s Office, and the Milwaukee Department of Neighborhood Services.

Other Similar Resources

• The Debt Collection Lab has developed the Debt Collection Tracker to monitor the number of debt cases being filed across the United States
• The Energy Justice Lab has released the Utility Disconnections Dashboard, tracking disconnections nationwide.
• Legal Services Corporation’s Eviction Laws Database is an online tool that allows users to explore the variation in eviction laws across the United States. It is a partnership with the Center for Public Health Law Research at Temple University’s Beasley School of Law.
  
  

Last Updated: September 20, 2023