Providence Evictions
research questions
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How does the eviction process work?
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How can we corroborate and expand upon EvictionLab’s data?
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Eviction process is difficult and confusing for tenants.
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There is very little information available for tenants.
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Judiciary Public Portal search engine geared towards searching for/targeting individuals.
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Rhode Island’s record-keeping (lack of addresses online) could be improved.
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Eviction Lab’s data (from LexusNexus) appears accurate when compared to our data (from courts).
findings
data
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RI Judiciary Public Portal
methods + process
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Going to court records office to look at a sample of cases
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Going to eviction court to watch proceedings
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Creating one-pagers for tenants going through evictions
potential next steps
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Distribute one-pagers
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Retrieve more records of tenant’s win/loss ratio + specific landlords who are evicting a lot of people
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Look further into evictions in public and private housing
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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
Signs of Providence