Department of Sociology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540.
Fellows Statistics, San Diego, CA 92107.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022 May 24;119(21):e2116169119. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2116169119. Epub 2022 May 16.
SignificanceSeveral negative effects of forced displacement have been well documented, yet we lack reliable measurement of eviction risk in the national perspective. This prevents accurate estimations of the scope and geography of the problem as well as evaluations of policies to reduce housing loss. We construct a nationwide database of eviction filings in the United States. Doing so reveals that 2.7 million households, on average, are threatened with eviction each year; that the highest eviction filing rates are not concentrated solely in high-cost urban areas; and that state-level housing policies are strongly associated with county-level eviction filing risk. These data facilitate an expanded research agenda on the causes and consequences of eviction lawsuits in the United States.
意义
被迫流离失所有着诸多负面影响，这一点已得到充分证实，然而我们缺乏从国家视角可靠衡量驱逐风险的手段。这使得我们无法准确估算问题的范围和地域分布，也无法评估旨在减少住房损失的政策。我们在美国构建了一个驱逐申请的全国性数据库。通过这样做，我们发现每年平均有 270 万户家庭受到驱逐威胁；驱逐申请率最高的地区并非仅集中在高成本的城市地区；而且州一级的住房政策与县一级的驱逐申请风险密切相关。这些数据有助于扩大美国驱逐诉讼的原因和后果的研究议程。
