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New Data Release Shows that 3.6 Million Eviction Cases were Filed in the United States in 2018

The Eviction Lab’s newest data release shows that nearly 6 out of 100 renting households were threatened with eviction at least once during 2018.

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Bryce Covert
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After the Eviction Moratorium

The long-predicted nationwide wave of lockouts is finally cresting. A report from New York City housing court

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Eric Peterson
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Utah helped landlords, not renters. How that’s changing.

In 2021, a spokesperson for the Department of the Treasury was surprised to learn that Utah was using federal Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) money to pay landlords’ legal bills for evicting renters.

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Emily A. Benfer, Robert Koehler, Alyx …
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Assessing State Eviction Prevention Policies in Response to COVID-19

We describe and analyze the unprecedented eviction prevention housing policies enacted at the state level in response to COVID-19, where protections worked very differently from state to state.

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Kristen Consillio
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Eviction cases on the rise as Hawaii tenants struggle to stay in their homes

Amy Rivo said she was given a notice to evict as soon as the moratorium ended in October. "They were essentially telling me I would be homeless a week before Christmas," she said.

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Peter Hepburn, Devin Q. Rutan, and …
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Uncovering the Suburban Eviction Crisis

Eviction is often seen as a city problem. This overlooks what’s going on outside of inner cities, leaving us blind to eviction patterns in suburban areas.

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Lori Teresa Yearwood
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Evictions Are Back. Black Renters Are Suffering the Most—Again.

In Indianapolis, like many American cities, the long shadow of segregation continues to punish Black neighborhoods—to the disproportionate benefit of white landlords.

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