Eviction Lab

05/29/2026

“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

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.

05/28/2026

Mobile homes are one of the last affordable housing options in the country but what happens when that stability is lost?

A new documentary by reporter Yana Kunichoff for and examines the growing pressures facing mobile home communities and the people left with nowhere else to go.

Watch the full documentary at azluminaria.org or news.azpm.org

05/28/2026

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

https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/valley/maricopa-county-trying-help-tenants-avoid-getting-evicted-phoenix-arizona/75-36462a0d-7d10-41c1-ae5b-d3f5f97c7829

05/27/2026

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

Via: The New York Times

Housing officials were told to exclude emotional support animals and tighten the definition of a service animal when granting accommodations for disabled tenants.

05/25/2026

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

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.

05/22/2026

“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.”

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.

05/21/2026

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

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.

05/20/2026

“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.”

A new dashboard released by City Controller Kenneth Mejia shows the 100 L.A. properties with the most housing violations.

05/19/2026

With 144,000 evictions filings in 2025, the Atlanta region is the most evicting site across the locations we track.

But evictions aren’t spread out evenly. Chauncey Alcorn with visited the complex contributing the most to the eviction crisis in the Atlanta region.

To learn more head to the link in our bio or capitalbnews.org.

Reporting and images by: Chauncey Alcorn

05/19/2026

“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.

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.....

05/19/2026

“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 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.