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Devin Rutan and Matthew Desmond
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Top Evicting Landlords Drive U.S. Eviction Crisis

In order to design policies that could anticipate and prevent tenants from being evicted, the Eviction Lab analyzed the locations of evictions over time, hoping to detect a meaningful pattern. Based on our analysis of 17 cities, evictions …

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Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein
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How Housing Activists Took On Philadelphia and Won

In a city with thousands of vacant homes, families are still homeless. Jennifer Bennetch decided to do something about it.

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Anne Kat Alexander and Sarah Lee
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Preliminary Analysis: A Year of Eviction Moratoria

March 26, 2021 marks the one year anniversary since the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) was signed into law. As we cross this pandemic anniversary, the Eviction Lab looked back and evaluated twelve months of …

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Eric Peterson
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Protection against hidden rental fees now written into Utah law

Dawn Woudenberg witnesses the pain on Salt Lake City’s streets working across from the homeless shelter where she used to sleep.

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Eric S. Peterson, Taylor Hartman, Ria …
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Some Utah landlords are evicting domestic violence victims

In too many cases eviction adds to the trauma of abuse victims and families struggling to make ends meet.

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Peter Hepburn and Renee Louis
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Preliminary Analysis: Six Months of the CDC Eviction Moratorium

Now that the CDC moratorium has been in place for six months—and given that it is set to expire at the end of March—we conducted a preliminary analysis of how effective it has been.

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