Preliminary Analysis: Eviction Filing Patterns in 2025 Amid benefit cuts, rising rents, and immigration enforcement, renters faced mounting pressures in 2025. Our data show landlords still filed over 1.2 million eviction cases across the country.

For the third year in a row, landlords filed more than 1.2 million evictions across the 30+ cities and 10 states we track monthly.

Break down the numbers with us below in our 2025 annual report 🧵

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Tacoma, Portland, Eugene and Southwest Oregon join more than 30 cities and 10 states under Eviction Lab's monthly eviction tracker.

Would you believe evictions are more common in Portland, Oregon, than in New York City?

Portland’s eviction filing rate is 6%—slightly higher than NYC’s 5%.

We’ve added four new Pacific Northwest locations to our tracking data. Explore here: evictionlab.org/eviction-tra...

ICE Deaths in Custody | UCLA Law Behind Bars Data Project The UCLA Law Behind Bars Data Project works to increase transparency and accountability in the US carceral system by compiling and researching data on deaths in custody.

Over 68,000 people are now detained in U.S. immigration facilities, and people are dying in ICE custody at record rates. Built with our partners @law.ucla.edu and journalist Andrew Free, you can use our new data tool explore that data going back to 2003: uclaprisondata.org/ice-deaths-i...

Atlanta, Georgia | Eviction Tracking System Real time eviction tracking in U.S. cities during COVID-19.

New eviction data just dropped for the Atlanta region 📊

For the first time on our site, see where filings are rising, what buildings are driving the crisis and how trends are shifting across metro Atlanta.

Explore the data: evictionlab.org/eviction-tra...

And The Education Recovery Project, which measures post-COVID learning loss, adds updates to crosswalk and estimation methods. edopportunity.org/recovery/exp...

The Segregation Tracking Project adds data on segregation between schools through the 2023-2024 school year: edopportunity.org/segregation/...

The Educational Opportunity Project’s new data provides a major update to the 2009-2019 achievement and learning rates data, including a new metric, Trend in Learning Rates: edopportunity.org/opportunity/...

The Educational Opportunity Project (edopportunity.org) combines the gold standard in U.S. academic data with a focus on socioeconomic inequality, segregation, and pandemic-related recovery.

On behalf of researchers at Stanford and UCLA, we just launched major updates on all these fronts (🧵):

Legal aid under threat: the human cost of federal budget cuts The Legal Services Corporation funds over 100 legal aid organizations nationwide. Proposed budget cuts put their services in jeopardy, with potentially dire consequences for tenants facing eviction ac...

“Beyond the fact that the budget was approved on this occasion, there are still reasons to be concerned. LSC has expressed that this funding still won’t be enough to help all the Americans who deserve eviction legal aid or help in other civil law cases.”

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Hyperobjekt - Stanford's Model Use of Force Policy Analyzing force regulations across America's largest cities and providing communities with evidence-based tools to evaluate and reform local policing standards.

Read our case study on the project here:

“Police use of force policies shape life-and-death encounters, yet nationally they remain fragmented, inconsistent and largely hidden from public view.”

Learn more in this op-ed from the project’s leaders at Stanford Law School:

Model Use of Force Policy | Home Let’s raise the standard. Learn about smarter use of force policies for safer communities, and explore policies in departments across America.

In light of recent events in Minneapolis, a timely new launch from our partners at @law.stanford.edu: The Use of Force Policy Explorer. Built in collaboration with the Center for Racial Justice, the site allows anyone to explore and compare these policies across the country.

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Looking ahead to 2026, we maintain our commitment to public interest research and data, and are excited for all the compelling projects on deck. Thanks so much to all our partners—we look forward to what we’ll build together in 2026. Happy holidays and new year! hyperobjekt.com

Home | The Forum for Integrated Research Uniting science and the humanities to reimagine our future.

We also launched the Forum for Integrated Research, a new initiative convening leading scholars from across disciplines (including Nobel Prize winners, Guggenheim laureates, and MacArthur “Genius grant” recipients) to collaborate on pressing societal challenges. forumforintegratedresearch.net

Homepage | UCLA Law Behind Bars Data Project The UCLA Law Behind Bars Data Project works to increase transparency and accountability in the US carceral system by compiling and researching data on deaths in custody.

We’ve continued our work with longtime collaborators at UCLA Law to update and expand the Behind Bars Data Project, a website that tracks carceral mortality. uclaprisondata.org

Opinion | Is Decarbonization Dead?

Check out Professor Jenkins’ interview on The Ezra Klein Show earlier this year www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/o...

Home • ZERO Lab • Princeton University

We continued our work with Professor Jesse Jenkins’ ZERO Lab and the REPEAT Project to add timely new reports in response to changes in climate policy. zero.lab.princeton.edu

Debt Collection Lawsuits Are Rising. Here’s What to Do to Fight Back.

See coverage of the Lab's work in The New York Times: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/y...

Debt Collection Tracker We are building tools for tracking debt collection nationwide.

Working with the Debt Collection Lab, we supported new data releases and reports expanding the reach and timeliness of its research on debt collection practices. debtcollectionlab.org/lawsuit-trac...

Preliminary Analysis: Eviction Filing Patterns in 2024 The days of emergency rental assistance and eviction protections are long gone. Now, our data show that landlords are filing evictions at nearly the same levels as before 2020.

With longtime partners at Princeton’s Eviction Lab, we visualized a new wave of research devoted to understanding housing precarity. evictionlab.org/ets-report-2...

Coming in 2026: powerful new tools devoted to homeless services and mapping property ownership networks.

Stanford researchers, nonprofit help California residents manage wildfire smoke exposure As California sees an increasing amount of wildfires, researchers from Stanford University and a Northern California nonprofit are helping residents prepare for and manage their exposure to toxic wild...

See coverage of Stanford's work at CBS News: www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco...

Environmental Hazard Adaptation Atlas | ECHO Lab | Stanford University Studying the impacts of environmental change on human health and well-being

2025 saw the launch of the Environmental Hazard Adaptation Atlas in partnership with researchers at Stanford, to visualize and explore interventions for wildfire smoke and temperature-related risks. adaptationatlas.org#/smoke/wsc/c...

Covid Learning Losses

See coverage in the NYT: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/b...

The Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford | Home Use our visualizations to explore educational opportunity in your school & community.

For Stanford’s Educational Opportunity Project, we launched new data and customized location profiles to facilitate exploration of decades-long trends in educational data. edopportunity.org

Hyperobjekt's 2025 Year in Review:

In a time marked by serious challenges to public-interest data and research, we reaffirm our dedication to transparency and understanding of critical social issues. We end 2025 grateful for our partnerships and inspiring collaborations. Here are some highlights:

Preliminary Analysis: Eviction Filing Patterns in 2024 The days of emergency rental assistance and eviction protections are long gone. Now, our data show that landlords are filing evictions at nearly the same levels as before 2020.

In 2024, landlords filed more than a million evictions in the 30+ cities and 10 states we monitor.

While some jurisdictions showed progress, others revealed concerning trends. We’re sounding the alarm in several cities. Learn more in our 2024 report: evictionlab.org/ets-report-2...

The Education Recovery Explorer Compare pandemic learning loss and recovery in districts and states across the country.

At a time when education data and research are both critically important and increasingly imperiled, we're honored to offer tools like the Recovery Explorer that serve as crucial resources for understanding key social and policy questions. edopportunity.org/recovery/explorer

Most US kids aren't gaining fast enough in reading and math. These schools are different The average American student remains half a grade level behind pre-pandemic levels of achievement in both reading and math.

AP: apnews.com/article/math...

A deep dive on U.S. reading and math scores, and what to do about them New research drills down on poor student achievement and notes some school districts that are beating the odds.

NPR: www.npr.org/2025/02/11/n...

Covid Learning Losses We explain the ways students haven’t recovered.

For more on the research behind these tools, see coverage in The New York Times: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/b...