Our 8 Recommendations for Improving Local and National Eviction Data

Nearly 3 million Americans are evicted each year, and experts estimate that number may grow tenfold due to the economic fallout of COVID-19. To create a robust and informed anti-eviction strategy, we must understand the scope of evictions and their devastating impact on communities over time.

Here are our 8 Recommendations for Creating Local and National Eviction Data Systems that have been co-developed with and co-signed by:

• Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation
• Eviction Lab
• Georgetown’s Civil Justice Data Commons
• January Advisors
• National League of Cities
• National Low Income Housing Coalition
• New America
• Stanford Law School Legal Design Lab
• UNC Greensboro Center for Housing and Community Studies

These recommendations are part of a longer report titled “Why is Eviction Data so Bad?”