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.
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.
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.
