evictions

Essays

Visible Minorities, Visible Risk: Toronto’s Unequal Eviction Burden

Prentiss Dantzler & Khalil Martin & Abigail Meza - 16 September 2025

In Toronto, who gets evicted isn’t random—it follows the city’s racial and economic divides. Canada’s data practices...

From the Field

Massive Evictions and Housing Crisis in Chile

Santiago Castillo Braithwaite - 15 April 2025

In the midst of a deep housing crisis, more than 100,000 families in Chile are currently living in informal...

From the Field

Securing Shelter While Facing Eviction: The Case of Syrian Migrants in Lebanon

Dima El Khouri - 16 December 2022

Dima El Khouri documents the politics of securing housing for Syrian refugees in Lebanon. She shows the complex web...

From the Field

The Promises and Realities of Data-Driven Community Development

Austin Harrison - 22 February 2022

Tennessee nonprofit Innovate Memphis has spent nearly a decade designing the Memphis Property Hub, a public data...

Reviews

A Social Portrait of the Subprime Crisis

Camille François & translated by Oliver Waine - 14 May 2021

What have been the social and urban consequences of the subprime mortgage crisis, and what lessons can be learned and...

From the Field

Reflections on Four Years of Housing-Justice Support Work with Mapping Action Collective

Sachi Arakawa & Tim Hitchins - 13 April 2021

Mapping Action Collective, based in Portland, Oregon, leverages mapping and data to support housing-justice...

From the Field

Landlord Tech in Covid‑19 Times

Erin McElroy & Wonyoung So - 30 March 2021

Covid‑19 has expanded trends in surveillance technology deployed by landlords and property managers—resulting in...

Interviews

“Every Eviction is an Act of Violence”

Tara Raghuveer & Joshua Akers - 23 March 2021

Josh Akers interviews researcher, organizer, and activist Tara Raghuveer about her work with KC Tenants in Kansas...

From the Field

Displacement, Demobilization, and Democracy: Current Eviction and Historic Dispossession in Richmond, Virginia

Kathryn Howell & Benjamin F. Teresa - 4 February 2020

High eviction rates in Black Richmond neighborhoods must be understood in the context of a long history of political...

From the Field

Understanding the Causes of Eviction-Based Urban Displacement: Bringing Critical Urban Theory Back In

J. Revel Sims - 24 September 2019

Close analysis of eviction patterns in Dane County, Wisconsin, between 2000 and 2016 suggests that tenant poverty is...

From the Field

The Actually Existing Markets of Shrinking Cities

Joshua Akers - 18 April 2017

In a bid to halt urban decline, Michigan’s state government sought to create incentives for the creation of urban...

From the Field

Contesting Economies of Displacement and Dispossession

Joshua Akers - 13 January 2017

Joshua Akers describes Detroit’s housing crisis, characterized by speculation, displacement, and increasingly violent...

Reviews

Evictions and Poverty

Hilary Botein - 28 June 2016

Matthew Desmond’s Evicted has drawn much-needed attention to the under-studied problem of unsubsidized rental...

Visible Minorities, Visible Risk: Toronto’s Unequal Eviction Burden

Massive Evictions and Housing Crisis in Chile

Securing Shelter While Facing Eviction: The Case of Syrian Migrants in Lebanon

The Promises and Realities of Data-Driven Community Development

A Social Portrait of the Subprime Crisis

Reflections on Four Years of Housing-Justice Support Work with Mapping Action Collective

Landlord Tech in Covid‑19 Times

“Every Eviction is an Act of Violence”

Displacement, Demobilization, and Democracy: Current Eviction and Historic Dispossession in Richmond, Virginia

Understanding the Causes of Eviction-Based Urban Displacement: Bringing Critical Urban Theory Back In

The Actually Existing Markets of Shrinking Cities

Contesting Economies of Displacement and Dispossession

Evictions and Poverty

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