Скачать или смотреть Modeling Eviction trends in Virginia - Samantha Toet

Virginia is home to 5 of the top 10 cities in the country with the highest rates of eviction. Using civil court records, we are able to analyze the behavior of landlords, so that we can hold those in power accountable to make effective and just change.

Where do landlords engage in more eviction actions? What characteristics of renters or landlords increase the practice of serial filing? Using administrative data -- information collected by government and agencies in the implementation of public programs -- we are able to evaluate systems and promote most just outcomes. Working with the Civil Court Data Initiative of Legal Services Corporation, we use data collected from civil court records in Virginia to analyze the behavior of landlords. Expanding on our Virginia Evictors Catalog, we use data on court evictions to build additional data tools to support the work of legal and housing advocates and model key eviction outcomes to contribute to our understanding of landlord behavior.

First we visualized eviction activity across the state in an interactive Shiny app to address questions and needs of organizations providing legal, policy, and community advocacy. In addition we estimated landlord actions – eviction filings and serial filings – as a function of community and landlord characteristics. Using a series of mixed-effects models, with data aggregated to zipcodes nested in counties, we estimated the impact of community characteristics and landlord attributes on the likelihood of eviction filings.

Participants will walk away with a better understanding of what influences landlord behavior, and will have a framework for investigating the practice in their own communities.

Github: https://github.com/virginiaequitycent...
Evictors Catalog: https://virginiaequitycenter.shinyapp...
Blog about Writs of Eviction: https://virginiaequitycenter.github.i...