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Mar 17, 2023 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Do you know why your city looks the way it does?
From office buildings to single family homes, #zoning defines what is built and where, including #affordablehousing (or the lack of). But these laws can be difficult to understand. We have a solution. 1/9 evictionlab.org/zoning-restric…
Researchers Matt Mleczko and Matthew Desmond have created the National Zoning and Land Use Database, which allows us to understand how restrictive thousands of cities are in terms of what kind of housing they allow… 2/9
May 19, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Landlords in the 6 states and 31 cities that we monitor have filed 926,676 eviction cases during the pandemic.
A quarter of all those filings have happened in 2022, as moratoria expired and rental assistance programs shut down.
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After a peak at 97% of historical average in March 2022, eviction filings decreased slightly in April.
It’s too soon to know what will happen in the upcoming months, but summer is usually the busiest time of the year in landlord-tenant court. 2/7
