How to Leverage Funding and Technical Assistance to Improve Local Eviction Data

Court records are the primary data source on evictions in the United States. Local communities extract critical information from these records, including when and where evictions are taking place. Despite the importance of this information, the quality and accessibility of eviction court data varies across the U.S.

In the spring of 2021, New America’s Future of Land and Housing (FLH) program and a coalition of housing experts, municipal leaders and court staff released 8 high-level recommendations to improve eviction data infrastructure at the local and national level.

Over the last year, FLH and the coalition deepened recommendations focused on two critical local needs:

• Federal Funding to Advance Eviction Data Infrastructure in Local Jurisdictions
• Technical Assistance to Build a Robust Eviction Data Infrastructure in Local Jurisdictions

These recommendations, on How to Leverage Funding and Technical Assistance to Improve Local Eviction Data, are targeted towards actors at the federal level, state level, and local level, and taken together, can help unlock access to court eviction data, and build capacity for local data use in ways that ensure housing security across the country.

For more information on our ongoing work related to improving eviction data, please reach out to Sabiha Zainulbhai at zainulbhai@newamerica.org.