New York saw a number of steps taken to prevent a surge in eviction cases. A state-wide moratorium prevented landlords from filing eviction cases from late-March until June 20, 2020. Additional protections—including the Tenant Safe Harbor Act and the automatic suspension of newly-filed eviction cases—kept filings below historical averages. A state-wide moratorium was again implemented in late-December 2020. Pieces of the state-wide moratorium that allowed tenants to avoid a court case by declaring a COVID hardship were struck down by the Supreme Court in August 2021, but a new moratorium was enacted on September 2, 2021 that still afforded tenants certain protections in cases of COVID hardship. This moratorium expired on January 15, 2022.
More detail on eviction protections in New York is available from the Furman Center.
This plot shows monthly eviction filings in New York City over the last year. Filings are displayed relative to the pre-pandemic average for the same set of months. You can toggle the plot to display filing counts and to extend the time frame back to January 2020.1
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Eviction filings by defendant race/ethnicity and gender
There are often large racial/ethnic and gender disparities in eviction risk. Here, we estimate the demographic characteristics of those filed against for eviction over the last year. We compare to data from the ACS that show the share of renters in the same categories.1
Share of eviction filings
Share of renters
When a landlord files an eviction claim in New York, we observe the amount they claim the tenant owes in back rent, late fees, and damages. In this figure, we plot the typical (median) amount claimed in eviction filings for each month over the last year. We exclude cases in which the landlord doesn’t make a monetary claim, and we drop months if there were fewer than 10 eviction cases filed. The dashed horizontal line on the plot marks the typical claim on an eviction case filed before the pandemic.
Over the past year, of all eviction claims,
New York City is divided into 299 zip codes. In each of those zip codes, we map the number of eviction filings over the last year. If you toggle below you can see these numbers as eviction filing rates—the number of eviction filings divided by the number of renter households in the area—or compared to the typical number of filings in the average year.1 2
On map, we also plot the location of the top 100 eviction hotspots in the county (see above). Hover over the circles to see more information about filings from these locations.3
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Eviction filings by neighborhood race/ethnicity
American Community Survey (ACS) data allow us to categorize zip codes by their racial/ethnic majority: White, Black, Latinx, or Other/None.
When you toggle the figure to see data relative to average, comparisons are being drawn—within the same set of zip codes defined by racial/ethnic majority—between filings over the last year and average filings in 2016–2018.1
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Eviction filings by defendant race/ethnicity and gender
There are often large racial/ethnic and gender disparities in eviction risk. Here, we estimate the demographic characteristics of those filed against for eviction over the last year. We compare to data from the ACS that show the share of renters in the same categories.1
Share of eviction filings
Share of renters
