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Providence Evictions

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research questions

 

  • Eviction process is difficult and confusing for tenants.

  • There is very little information available for tenants.

  • Judiciary Public Portal search engine geared towards searching for/targeting individuals.

  • Rhode Island’s record-keeping (lack of addresses online) could be improved.

  • Eviction Lab’s data (from LexusNexus) appears accurate when compared to our data (from courts).

findings
data
methods + process
  • Going to court records office to look at a sample of cases

  • Going to eviction court to watch proceedings

  • Creating one-pagers for tenants going through evictions

potential next steps
  • Distribute one-pagers 

  • Retrieve more records of tenant’s win/loss ratio + specific landlords who are evicting a lot of people 

  • Look further into evictions in public and private housing 

  • Analyze eviction hotspots at a local/neighborhood level

 

researchers

Amelia Anthony, English ‘22

Christian Cianfarani, Urban Studies & CS ‘20

Lucy Walke, Political Science ‘19

William Yang, Applied Math ‘22

 

community partners

Kristina Brown

Policy Analyst, HousingWorksRI

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