“Landlords filed more than 1.23 million eviction cases in the 10 states and 38 cities where data was collected by Princeton University’s Eviction Lab.”
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Via @stateline.org
“But doing everything right still was not enough to protect her young family from losing their housing. For too many parenting students, Destiny’s experience is not an outlier.“
New report from @newamerica.org and Eviction Lab’s Nick Graetz:
“Some people got places to go but you can only lean on your family for so long. That’s a burden you don’t want to put on nobody.”
Via: KSDK
"In eviction court, time is a victory."
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via @houstonchronicle.com
Evictions are a community temperature check pointing to serious problems of housing affordability, wages and more.
To learn more, read the full blog post and explore data in the Eviction Tracking System.
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As we add more locations to our tracker, this much is clear: eviction flings are a widespread and persistent issue across the country. And they should come as a warning.
Bar graph of share of eviction filings by the top 100 buildings
In many of these cities, evictions are highly concentrated in just a few landlords. For example, in Albuquerque and South Bend, IN, more than half of filings come from just 100 buildings.
bar graph depicting percentage of renter population vs. eviction filing defendants by race/ethnicity
In many of these cities, evictions were also highly concentrated in just a few landlords. For example, in Albuquerque and South Bend, IN, more than half of filings come from just 100 buildings.
Consistent with previous years, evictions also don’t impact everyone equally. Data shows Black renters shouldered a significant burden. Despite making up 28% of the renter population, we estimate that 39% of eviction filings in 2025 named a Black defendant.
Bar graph of eviction filing rates across 30+ cities and 10 states tracked by the Eviction Lab.
Places like Richmond, VA and Charleston, SC saw rates that were at least double than the national average. Meanwhile, areas like New York City and Philadelphia kept rates low.
To account for population sizes, we also track eviction filing rates (EFR): the number of eviction cases filed per 100 renter households.
In 2025:
📊The average eviction filing rate was 7.9% across our ETS
📊That’s one eviction case filed for every 13 renter households in 2025.
For example, in Atlanta — one of the newest sites we’ve added — eviction filings were down 4% in 2025. But landlords still filed about 144,000 eviction cases. That's more than the number of fillings in New Mexico, Minnesota, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Delaware, and Wisconsin combined.
But drops should be interpreted with caution. Even when filings fall, thousands of renters are still at risk of losing their homes sometimes in as little as a couple days depending on where they live.
Depending on where you live, the situation was radically different last year: for example, in Bridgeport, CT, we saw the most drastic drop across the sites we track, with filings down 20% compared to annual averages.
bar graph of eviction filing counts in the last 5 years
In 2025, landlords filed 1.23M eviction cases in areas covered by our Eviction Tracking System — home to around a third of U.S. renters. That’s a slight drop from 1.25M in 2024.
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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“The grief she experienced after losing her relatives compounded her financial struggles, Anderson said, and the eviction made it all but impossible to focus.”
“River Valley Communities filed more evictions last year (491) than any other landlord in the five-county metro Atlanta region.”
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“Several residents said the assistance falls far short of actual moving costs, which they say can reach $50,000.”
"If you can't get stable housing, you have a harder time having a job and keeping that job. You have a hard time providing educational opportunities for your kids.”
“I’ve been close to being kicked out, and that just makes me so frustrated, to realize that I’ve got a full time job and I can’t even pay for my place.”
Via: @portlandmercury.com
“I knew that I was coming up against some really hard times, and I started talking to my co-workers and neighbors, and I knew they were in the same boat.”
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“It’s very difficult for people who have been fighting for survival every day to take on the kind of work required of most people to regain housing.”
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By @caseyquinlan.bsky.social. via @prospect.org
“[My daughter] is a senior in high school now, a culinary student and getting ready to graduate. The Eviction Prevention Program helped make that possible.”
Via: @mainebeacon.bsky.social
“Even though I’m so grateful to be in my own space, it just felt like I had to jump through so many hoops and it just felt so exhausting and absolutely humiliating.”
Via: @thecity.nyc
“We know that the conditions that people live in shows up in their outcomes, whether that’s asthma from mold or dampness, whether that’s injuries from unsafe structures or the daily strain that families carry as a result of having that concern on their mind..."
“While the Latino population has been increasing across the board, it has done so at sharply different rates — rising only 12% in New York City compared with an increase of 42% in the suburbs.”
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By @rojeda.bsky.social
