When we launched the Eviction Tracking System, the best way to contextualize the numbers was to compare against what was typical before the pandemic. Five years later, we’ve decided it’s time to change that baseline.
Over the course of 2021 and 2022, the U.S. carried out an unprecedented experiment: we invested $46.55 billion to help Americans pay rent when they fell behind. Here we provide insight into how this money was distributed and the impact it had.
Kids whose parents face eviction cases are more likely to leave their district, end up in schools with fewer resources, and experience an increase in absences and suspensions.
As a growing number of jurisdictions consider adopting RTC—and as researchers seek to analyze the effects of such programs—it is critical to understand their challenges and the keys to their success. Here we highlight five key findings.
The days of emergency rental assistance and eviction protections are long gone. Now, our data show that landlords are filing evictions at nearly the same levels as before 2020.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
