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RVA Eviction Lab @RVAEvictionLab

We focus on data to understand the eviction crisis in Richmond and Virginia and to support those who are most affected by the crisis to drive change

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RVA Eviction Lab@RVAEvictionLab
5 Sep 2018
This is an important critique, and one we're committed to centering in our own work. It's why we prioritize supporting those who have been focused on eviction and displacement @reduceevictions @HomewardVA @HOMEofVA @VPLC shelterforce.org/2018/08/22/…

Eviction Lab Misses the Mark — Shelterforce

As housing activists and academics who conduct research on issues of housing and displacement, we have encountered problems with Eviction Lab’s practices.

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Our 1st Quarter Report for 2023 is now available: Eviction judgments continue to increase post-COVID protections from 81% to 95% of pre-pandemic levels. rampages.us/rvaevictionlab/2…
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Our quarterly report now includes analysis of amounts owed in eviction cases: In Q1 of 2023 the statewide median principal owed was $2,270, which is an 89% increase from 2019, indicating the continued financial burden of the pandemic on household budgets.
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Also new in our quarterly report is analysis of tenant legal representation: Tenants rarely have attorneys representing them and legal counsel results in better court outcomes for tenants. The median share of tenants who have attorneys in Virginia jurisdictions is 0.7%.
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NLIHC Releases Brief Detailing State-Level Tenant Protections Enacted Since Pandemic nlihc.org/news/nlihc-release…
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We analyzed eviction filing patterns in the region's large apartment buildings, which comprise almost 70% of all rental housing, 75% of all filings, and 67% of judgments in Richmond, Henrico, and Chesterfield. rampages.us/rvaevictionlab/r…
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9 parent companies that own rental housing in the region are each responsible for more than 1,000 eviction judgments, which is 31% of all judgments in the region from 2019-2015. 24 companies are responsible for the majority of all eviction filings.
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More than half of large buildings are owned by companies located in central Virginia. Across the region, eviction is highly concentrated spatially and by owner, overlapping significantly with Black neighborhoods:
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RVA Eviction Lab retweeted
VCU News Center@VCUnews
12 Apr 2023
Richmond City Council has declared a housing crisis in a city with one of America’s highest eviction rates. @Kate_Howell_Phd and @BenFTeresa, co-directors of @RVAEvictionLab at the @VCUWilderSchool, share suggestions for how the city can move forward. news.vcu.edu/article/2023/04…

Richmond has declared a housing crisis. What does this mean for renter

Co-directors of the RVA Eviction Lab in the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs reflect on housing instability and how to address it.

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Big news! The Virginia Evictors Catalog (VEC) has been updated to include serial filings and all data through December 2022. Follow along to learn more about what that means. 🧵 rampages.us/rvaevictionlab/d…

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Serial filings are multiple filings by a plaintiff against the same defendant within the same ZIP Code within a 12-month period. Research indicates that landlords use serial filings to leverage the court for debt collection as opposed to removal. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Serial Filing: How Landlords Use the Threat of Eviction

While recent research has illustrated the frequency and deleterious consequences of eviction, the number of executed evictions pales in comparison to the number of poor families threatened with...

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Who is the VEC for? Everyone! Whether you are a tenant, lawyer, advocate, organizer, or community member, the VEC is designed to help you learn more about the patterns of eviction.
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Our new Narrative Mapping Project is now live on our site. By connecting archival research, oral histories & spatial data, this project links current problems of housing instability with previous periods of exclusion, dispossession, and demobilization. rampages.us/rvaevictionlab/m…
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These ideas are explored more in depth here: metropolitics.org/Displaceme…

Displacement, Demobilization, and Democracy: Current Eviction and Historic Dispossession in...

High eviction rates in Black Richmond neighborhoods must be understood in the context of a long history of political and physical displacement that has suppressed activism in these neighborhoods. In…

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“The map of race is the map of Richmond”: Eviction and the enduring regimes of racialized disposs...

While the immediate correlates of eviction have been investigated at length, little has been done to connect the root causes in policy and planning over more than a century to the current moment of...

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RVA Eviction Lab retweeted
New Virginia Majority@NewVAMajority
8 Feb 2023
Both eviction filings and eviction judgments are the highest they’ve been in Northern VA since 2019- according to RVA Eviction Lab 4th Quarter Report. Read the full report here ⬇️ rampages.us/rvaevictionlab/w…
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2022 4th Quarter Report Overall in Q4 filings and judgments appear to have slowed or declined, a trend that will likely reverse once courts have reported all cases. Compared to prepandemic years, in 2022 eviction increased dramatically across the state. rampages.us/rvaevictionlab/r…
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Based on historical data reporting trends, 2022 will almost certainly have more evictions than 2020 and 2021 combined.
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Additionally, increased housing instability is driven by rent increases, with 40% of all renters reporting increases greater than $100, about 8% of VA median rent. 29% of Black renters report increases greater than $250, which is close to a 19% increase in the median rent.
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