Eviction Lab

“If he cleans out the building, it will be a hotel — not an SRO. Even though this may be technically legal, it goes against the need for affordable housing.”

Via: The City Reporter

‘Not Going Nowhere’: Old-Timers Fight Eviction From the New Times Square Sporting a duct-taped leg brace, a retired Hell’s Kitchen electrician battles alleged harassment as a landlord converts his SRO building into a tourist hotel.

“People are struggling to pay the bills, struggling to pay the rent, struggling just to keep their family fed and clothed.”

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“The new policy would affect many tenants who rely on assistance animals to alleviate psychiatric or mental disabilities.”

Via: The New York Times

HUD Moves to Limit Assistance Animals for Disabled Tenants Housing officials were told to exclude emotional support animals and tighten the definition of a service animal when granting accommodations for disabled tenants.

“An overly aggressive enforcement response to individuals experiencing homelessness undermines our shared goal of eliminating street sleeping.”

They Spent Weeks Housing the Homeless, Then Police Showed Up - The Lab Report Dallas Service providers launched a new initiative in South Dallas to provide apartments to people in encampments, but that didn't stop police from making arrests.

“Few people actually know about the law… If you had an eviction 20 years ago or 10 years ago, you may not be paying attention.”

One year in, backers of Massachusetts's eviction sealing law say there is promise — and an awareness problem The idea behind the law is to let tenants wipe the slate clean from certain evictions and not have those cases present obstacles to renting an apartment, securing a mortgage to buy a home, or finding employment.

“Black people, people with disabilities, and the elderly are overrepresented among those facing imminent eviction.”

Last chance at eviction court: The San Francisco tenants teetering on the abyss In a city of AI riches and skyrocketing rents, housing evictions hit a 10-year high in 2025 — and this year is trending even worse.

“There has never before been an uncomplicated way for anyone to look up years’ worth of violations by address… Everyone deserves safe, stable and dignified housing.”

L.A.'s 100 most problematic rental properties spotlighted in new city database A new dashboard released by City Controller Kenneth Mejia shows the 100 L.A. properties with the most housing violations.

“Sometimes in rural areas, those [resources] don’t exist or are much, much less funded or much less available,” Eviction Lab’s Juan Pablo Garnham told Radio Catskill.

‘It’s Like They Just Gave Up on Us:’ Monticello Tenants Allege Years of Mismanagement, Landlord Harassment MONTICELLO, N.Y. – Iris Frazier has lived at Evergreen Housing in Monticello since 2009. On warmer days, she and her neighbors gather outside their homes on lawn chairs along the sidewalk – a community she describes as “one big happy family.” “We try to help one another out, you know? It.....

“The impact was not limited to undocumented immigrants, but really to immigrants who are here legally as well as people within their families who are citizens.”

A Texas town may offer a preview of a Trump plan to force noncitizens from public housing A bungled message from a South Texas housing authority prompted mass flight. The situation in Port Isabel offers a glimpse of what could happen nationwide if a Trump administration proposal takes effect to end housing assistance to families in which at least one member is in the country illegally.