Research
Research and evidence on eviction.
A searchable library of everything we can find on eviction, displacement, and housing precarity, and what ERN itself has published, built, or evaluated. For the policies with measured effects on eviction, see What works.
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What we have published, built, or evaluated ourselves.
Keeping People in Their Homes: the impact of emergency rental assistance on evictions
A neighborhood-level evaluation of whether $46.6 billion in emergency rental assistance reduced eviction filings, across 700+ counties and 12,000+ census tracts in 22 states.
Read more → State profile · 2026Washington eviction filings, 2016–2026
Over the past 36 months, 1 in 45 renter households faced an eviction filing, roughly 49% above the pre-pandemic normal. Seven of 39 counties exceed the state rate.
Read more → Cityscape (HUD) · 2024Toward a national eviction data collection strategy using natural language processing
How ERN mined 111,740 Washington court records buried in scanned PDFs and handwritten paper to expose the racial and gender disparities structured data could not see.
Read more →Research library
Everything we can find on eviction.
Peer-reviewed publications, reports, working papers, and datasets on eviction, displacement, and housing precarity, from researchers, courts, agencies, and advocacy organizations across the field. Searchable by state, topic, and type. Know of work that belongs here? Send it to us.
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The library is hand-maintained and it is incomplete by definition. If you have published research, run a court data project, or maintain a tracker we have not indexed, send it over and we will add it. If you need a policy briefing for a hearing or a bill, we write those too.