Listing of Articles focusing on evictions, foreclosures, relocations/displacement & homelessness.
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October 26, 2020
USICH Releases Strategic Plan Ignoring Decades of Evidence on the Causes of and Solutions to Homelessness
The United State Interagency Counsel on Homelessness (USICH) released on October 19 a new strategic plan that is deeply flawed and ill-informed, ignoring decades of evidence on the causes of and solutions to homelessness and undermining successful programs. NLIHC joined nine other national housing…
An article in Housing Policy Debate, “Gentrification-Induced Displacement in Detroit, Michigan: An Analysis of Evictions,” maps evictions in the city between 2009 and 2015, finding evidence that geographic patterns of evictions shift with patterns of gentrification. The article presents a case…
An article in Housing Policy Debate, “Housing Stability, Evictions, and Subsidized Rental Properties: Evidence from Metro Atlanta, Georgia,” compares eviction rates in subsidized and non-subsidized rental properties across Atlanta’s multifamily housing stock. The researchers find the eviction rate…
October 5, 2020
Unpaid Rent May Be as High as $34 Billion by End of the Year
A report from Stout, “Analysis of Current and Expected Rental Shortfall and Potential Evictions in the U.S.,” finds that between 9.7 and 14.2 million households, accounting for 23.3 to 34 million individual renters, are currently unable to pay rent. The report, prepared for the National Council of…