@article{f2017712768845a5bcc531b4ad3a8a93,
title = "Eviction from public housing in the United States",
abstract = "Neither academic researchers nor the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development have studied evictions from public housing in national perspective. Combining federal registers of public housing authorities (PHAs) with individual-level records from >25 million eviction filings issued between 2006 and 2016, this is the first national-level study to estimate the prevalence and dynamics of eviction in public housing units. We find that the average PHA files roughly 40 evictions each year or 7.6 cases for every 100 public housing households. Public housing complexes were responsible for approximately 5.8 out of every 100 eviction filings in our sample, while only 3.5 in 100 renting households resided in public housing. Controlling for socioeconomic factors, we show that PHAs with a higher percentage of Black residents have significantly higher eviction filing rates. Eviction filing rates in PHAs are associated with those in the surrounding private rental market, indicating that PHAs do not function independently from the social contexts in which they are embedded. These findings reveal significant variation in eviction filing rates across local PHAs and highlight the need for clear policies on lease terminations and improved documentation of eviction actions in public housing at the federal and local levels.",
keywords = "Eviction, Housing policy, Public housing",
author = "Ashley Gromis and Hendrickson, {James R.} and Matthew Desmond",
note = "Funding Information: We thank Dan Immergluck, Katherine O'Regan, members of the Eviction Lab at Princeton University, and participants at the Causes and Consequences of Eviction panel of the 2019 Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management for comments on earlier versions of this work. We thank Katherine Krywokulski for editing assistance. We also thank Lydia Taghavi, Lynn Rodgers, Mark Shroder, and Brent Mast of the Department of Housing and Urban Development for their support in providing data for this project. We received funding for this work from the JPB, Bill and Melinda Gates, and Ford Foundations as well as the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Research reported in this publication was supported by The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number P2CHD047879. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health. Funding Information: We thank Dan Immergluck, Katherine O'Regan, members of the Eviction Lab at Princeton University, and participants at the Causes and Consequences of Eviction panel of the 2019 Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management for comments on earlier versions of this work. We thank Katherine Krywokulski for editing assistance. We also thank Lydia Taghavi, Lynn Rodgers, Mark Shroder, and Brent Mast of the Department of Housing and Urban Development for their support in providing data for this project. We received funding for this work from the JPB , Bill and Melinda Gates , and Ford Foundations as well as the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative . Research reported in this publication was supported by The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number P2CHD047879 . The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022 The Authors",
year = "2022",
month = aug,
doi = "10.1016/j.cities.2022.103749",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "127",
journal = "Cities",
issn = "0264-2751",
publisher = "Elsevier Limited",
}