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Camila Vallejo
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We made a simple eviction data request to all 50 states. This is what we learned

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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Peter Hepburn, Danny Grubbs-Donovan, and …
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Preliminary Analysis: Eviction Filing Patterns in 2023

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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Juan Pablo Garnham
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More than 200,000 rural families face an eviction every year

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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Nick Graetz, Peter Hepburn, Carl …
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Eviction was a Deadly Risk During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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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Juan Pablo Garnham, Carl Gershenson, …
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When Fracking Comes to Town, Evictions Follow

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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Nick Graetz, Carl Gershenson, and …
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Rising Rents and Evictions Linked to Premature Death

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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Nick Graetz, Carl Gershenson, Peter …
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Who is Evicted in America

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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