Do public housing conversions lead to evictions? New research by Eviction Lab at Princeton University and NYU Furman Center answers that below👇 🔔
Public housing in the United States has been slowly decaying for decades. After years of substandard construction and inadequate funding for maintenance, many developments desperately need safer wiring, working elevators, better heating systems, new roofs, and other basic repairs. In 2012, Congress created the Rental Assistance Demonstration program (also known as RAD) as one response to that problem. From the beginning, RAD has raised a variety of concerns. Tenants and advocates have worried that a program meant to preserve public housing might end up making it less secure for the people living there. New research released by the NYU Furman Center's Ellie Lochhead and Ingrid Gould Ellen and Eviction Lab's Peter S. Hepburn at Princeton University seeks to address this one important aspect of the debate: "Does RAD conversion lead to more formal evictions?" as part of the first systematic national study of RAD-related eviction trends published in Housing Policy Debate. Researchers looked at more than 4,000 public housing developments nationwide and more than half a million eviction records, and found the average effect across hundreds of properties was effectively zero. On average, RAD conversion was not associated with an increase in eviction filings or eviction judgments. That was true in New York State, where we have especially detailed and long-running data, and it was equally true in the rest of our sample as well. Learn more about our research findings https://lnkd.in/eCGW4d68 The full paper https://lnkd.in/efhV_NUd #RAD #evictions #publichousing #nyc #newyork #national #housingresearch #housingpolicy #policy #research
