fabulous work happening in the midwest US not least because tenant organizing and collectivization is some of the hardest there is www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

“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...