I've been off Twitter for a while, but I wanted to share a quick stat that's important to the CDC eviction moratorium:
In Milwaukee, 34% of cases in which a tenant received an eviction notice, they moved without going to court.
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In Milwaukee, 34% of cases in which a tenant received an eviction notice, they moved without going to court.
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The stat's relevance to the moratorium is clear: a moratorium that prevents eviction filings will do a much better job of keeping families housed than one that allows filings (but pauses court proceedings).
Many families see an eviction notice as an eviction order.
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Many families see an eviction notice as an eviction order.
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Several states still allow eviction filings, and some landlords have sued for their right to file evictions during COVID.
As the Biden Administration considers how to revise the moratorium, they will face pressure to remove the eviction filing freeze recommendation.
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As the Biden Administration considers how to revise the moratorium, they will face pressure to remove the eviction filing freeze recommendation.
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But the statistical data affirm what tenant advocates have long known: that eviction filings themselves often provoke renting families to leave their homes.
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Many thanks to @cgershenson at @evictionlab for pulling this stat.
Sources:
Data: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/BLUU3U
Study that describes moving info in data: https://www.jstor.org/stable/43697545?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
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Sources:
Data: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/BLUU3U
Study that describes moving info in data: https://www.jstor.org/stable/43697545?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
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