Attention reporters! @evictionlab.bsky.social and ONA are teaming up for a workshop to improve your housing journalism skills. Join us on June 4!

Essential housing journalism: @capitalb.bsky.social keeps digging on how is it for renters to live in the complex with the most evictions in Atlanta, a city where 1 out of every 6 renter households experience an eviction filing.

Annual eviction filings report day here at the lab. "This year’s data also reflect a familiar pattern: eviction cases are concentrated among a small number of landlords. These landlords, through a handful of buildings, drive a disproportionate number of renters into court."

Life in Atlanta’s most eviction‑prone housing complex is brutal. Being just $2 short on rent can trigger hundreds in fees, lock residents out of the payment portal, and leave them with an eviction filing on their record.

Big news: we just added the first four West Coast locations to our Eviction Tracking System. Getting eviction data is hard, and even harder in this side of the country. Congrats to all the @evictionlab.bsky.social team and our partners that helped!

“[An eviction] is like falling into a hole, and trying to crawl out, but you are not able to,” Eviction Lab @jpgarnham.bsky.social told Brad Biehl.

As my colleague Matt Mleczko says, "if our housing markets are metropolitan in nature, then our development policies should be as well."

Back from #NICAR26 feeling energized! Thanks to @ire.org for having the @evictionlab.bsky.social back. And big shoutout to @outliermedia.org’s @amondry.bsky.social for sharing his experience in Detroit. Want the slides or tipsheet? Reply below, and I’ll send them.

It's been almost ten years since I read this book, and I was left astonished. It shaped the way I write and think about housing. I never thought I would end up working with Matthew Desmond and the Eviction Lab, which was founded a few years after the publication.

Are you coming to the #NICAR26 conference? Join @amondry.bsky.social and me for a conversation about how to report on housing and homelessness challenges! More info here: schedules.ire.org/nicar-2026/#... @ire.org

Not sure what this image has to do with the story, but the new eviction numbers out of Atlanta are dire. Believe me. Or just check the data here: evictionlab.org/eviction-tra...

NEW DATA: Landlords have filed nearly 145,000 evictions in the Atlanta metropolitan area. This is the highest volume among all cities and states we track. Find the breakdown below: evictionlab.org/eviction-tra...

Please donate to support the reporters laid off from The Washington Post. Donate here: gofund.me/ce20a9be1

Facing eviction is confusing, stressful, and often lonely — especially when resources are limited. That’s one of the reasons why the work @legalservicescorp.bsky.social does across the country is such a lifeline for renters navigating one of the hardest experiences they’ll ever go through.

“In Phoenix, we have [an eviction filing rate of] 14% for this last year, which is twice the amount of eviction filings that we see at a national level,” @jpgarnham.bsky.social told @kjzz.org www.kjzz.org/business/202... #housing+ #urbanism+ #urbanism

“More families facing housing instability means cities will need to fund more shelters and aid services.” www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston... By @houstonchronicle.com’s @partainclaire.bsky.social #housing+ #urbanism+ #urbanism

“[In Austin] we are in a place that looks much worse than the previous years,” @jpgarnham.bsky.social told @kutnews.bsky.social. www.kut.org/housing/2025... #housing+ #urbanism+ #urbanism

“Mobile homes are giving us something that is very unique right now in the United States: affordability. But the problem is that affordability comes with a cost,” Eviction Lab’s @jpgarnham.bsky.social told @news4jax.com. www.news4jax.com/news/local/2... #housing+ #urbanism #urbanism+

Half of Americans say the cost of housing is a major source of stress in their lives. Housing reporters share how any newsroom can tackle this. www.poynter.org/reporting-ed...

Philly, Rochester, Charleston, and Delaware. Four very different locations, but with one thing in common: taking specific and effective steps to help tenants avoid evictions.

What happens when college students with kids are threatened with Eviction? Nothing good! @evictionlab.bsky.social has a new video explaining our research. www.linkedin.com/posts/evicti...

Every month, I read stories of mobile home park closures across the country. This research is the first attempt to better understand this problem. #urbanism+ #housing+ #housing

Tomorrow!

Want to learn more about how to research and write about housing? Join @raceandequityproject.org and @evictionlab.bsky.social for a free virtual training, June 4. Register here: princeton.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #housing+ #urbanism+ #urbanism

4 out of every 10 people who receive an eviction filing are children. This research by Peter Hepburn, Danny Grubbs-Donovan, @ngraetz.bsky.social, Olivia Jin and Matthew Desmond highlights the damage that an eviction inflicts in their education. #housing+ #urbanism+ #urbanism

The "you have the right to an attorney" phrase we hear in movies is not true for most people facing homelessness in the United States. During an eviction, tenants face a hearing alone, while landlords have lawyers with them. Some cities are trying to change that and level the playing field.

🚨 NEW REPORT: Evictions are back to near pre-pandemic levels—and rising fast in places like Phoenix, Houston & Las Vegas. In 2024, landlords filed over 1 million eviction cases in the jurisdictions we track.

Eviction Lab is hiring! Find more information about our latest job openings here: tinyurl.com/evictionlab2... #housing+ #urbanism+ #urbanism

“No podemos seguir limitándonos a tratar los síntomas. Es hora de afrontar las causas profundas del problema,” el fundador de nuestro laboratorio, Matthew Desmond, conversó con @elarjonauta.bsky.social y @elmundoes.bsky.social www.elmundo.es/papel/histor... #housing+ #urbanism+ #urbanism

A nation of bystanders that was built by laws, "policies that penalize anyone who interacts with homeless people or displays empathy." By Leah Goodridge. time.com/7209921/byst...

Great piece on decreased eviction filings in NYC since pre-pandemic by @jpgarnham.bsky.social showing “the importance of proactively addressing tenant’s challenges, keeping long term policies in place, and adapting over time to cover gaps” evictionlab.org/in-the-most-...

As 2024 comes to an end, we wanted to sum up some of the eviction filing activity we’ve seen in the last year.  Although we are still waiting for December figures, this is a snapshot of how the 30+ cities and 10 states we track in our Eviction Tracking System performed in 2024. 🧵 #housing+ #urbanism

“We will absolutely have a labor shortage,” said George Fuller, a longtime Texas developer who is also mayor of McKinney. “Whether you want to acknowledge it or not, these industries depend on immigrant labor.” www.wsj.com/economy/trum...

"We had an avalanche of need with this hurricane, and there’s a second avalanche coming with these evictions.” www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi... By @washingtonpost.com's @bradydennis.bsky.social @sarahkaplan48.bsky.social

Great to see Houston's KPRC2 using a QR on this housing story, which takes viewers to a renter's rights guide. It should be a standard practice! #housing #housing+ #urbanism #urbanism+

What cities have the highest % of people spending most of their income in rent? It’s not NYC or LA, but places like Miami, Orlando, Baton Rouge and Fresno. Lots of interesting stories in this @apartmentlist.bsky.social analysis of rent burdens by metro. www.apartmentlist.com/research/cos...

🏠 What happened with eviction filings in 2023? 📉📈 Although we still haven’t received data for December, the numbers for this year so far reveal concerning patterns compared to 2022. A thread 🧵 based on our Eviction Tracking System data... evictionlab.org/eviction-tra...

In a new study from our collaboration with the Census Bureau, we demonstrate that both rising rents and evictions are associated with increased risk of death: evictionlab.org/rising-rents...