Housing Instability & Homelessness

Listing of Articles focusing on evictions, foreclosures, relocations/displacement & homelessness.

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Housing Instability & Homelessness Resources

New Research Finds 2.7 Million Households Receive Eviction Filings Annually

A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), “Estimating Eviction Prevalence across the United States,” offers new estimates of the rates of eviction filings and number of households threatened with evictions from 2000 to 2018. Using both court-issued records and…

Eviction Lab Research Finds Evictions Are Prevalent in Suburbs as well as Cities

A new journal article from the Eviction Lab, “Beyond Urban Displacement: Suburban Poverty and Eviction,” examines how urban and suburban eviction rates compare across 71 cities. The article finds that despite common perceptions that evictions are primarily an urban issue, evictions are also common…