Using public data to uncover the hidden costs of the housing crisis - Google Drive
Eviction Map & Data (Version 2.0) | Eviction Lab
The Eviction Lab’s Eviction Tracking System provides eviction filing data for 33 cities and 10 states. Data collection for the ETS started during the pandemic. Data is updated monthly and is available at the census tract and ZIP Code level.
The Eviction Tracking System | Eviction Lab
Increasingly, properties are being owned by corporate landlords, and corporations are more likely to evict people from their properties. Corporate property owners don’t want people knowing what they own, so they take steps to obscure their identities. The government should be doing this kind of work to identify themselves, but they don’t keep track of property owners very well.
County assessor has counts of who owns property, mailing address of owner, property’s address.
Merge data with data from Secretary of State, which holds names behind LLCs that own properties. A beneficial owner is the person who benefits from owning a property.
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Companies may try to imply that they don’t own any property, but rather they manage properties on behest of investors.
Talk to tenants’ rights organizations to get work that they’re doing.
Getting a previous year’s assessors data is usually valuable but cheaper.
A company may not own a property, but companies or subsidiaries connected to a company may own a property. Make clear to the reader that there are perhaps legal reasons about why someone can’t say that a company “owns” a property.
Identify, and then investigate, the biggest corporate property owners in your area. Which landlord has the largest eviction rate and highest percentages of habitability complaints or lawsuits? Has corporate ownership of rental properties increased or decreased over the past decade? Where are corporate landlords buying properties? Are they predominantly in communities of color?
Is there tenant complaint data?
The federal government, since the 1980s, guarantees that homeless students are able to receive educational rights. School districts should go out of their way to ensure that students without housing should be able to get into school (e.g., missing immunization records or increased transportation distance). Homeless students struggle more than students with housing in terms of chronic absenteeism, school mobility, and meeting exam standards.
What is HUD homelessness and ED homelessness?
The Department of Housing and Urban Development and Department of Education have different definitions of homelessness. Doubled-up homelessness is homelessness during which people are living temporarily with a friend or family member, but not in a permanent home. “Doubled-up” students experience many of the same struggles in schooling as do “traditionally” homeless students.
The Department of Education has data on demographic details such as race and ethnicity, grade, disability, and nighttime residence, as well as test scores. Hispanic and Black students are overrepresented in homeless student population.