Listing of Articles focusing on evictions, foreclosures, relocations/displacement & homelessness.
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HUD released the 2020 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR), Part 1, which provides estimates of homelessness in the U.S. The 2020 report estimates 580,466 people were experiencing homelessness in January 2020, which reflects a 2% increase from 2019. This is the fourth consecutive year in which…
An article in Housing Policy Debate, “Evictions: The Comparative Analysis Problem,” identifies ways in which contextual details matter when comparing eviction rates across jurisdictions. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, interviews, and study of administrative data, the authors identify institutional…
An article in Housing Policy Debate, “Eviction Case Filings and Neighborhood Characteristics in Urban and Rural Places: A Michigan Statewide Analysis,” analyzes all eviction filings in Michigan between 2014 and 2018 to identify characteristics of neighborhoods associated with higher eviction filing…
A recent paper published by the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado, Boulder, “Damage, Dislocation, and Displacement After Low-Attention Disasters,” documents a case study of disaster impact and recovery following a tornado in Marshalltown, Iowa. The authors found that concentrated…