This article comes from our Q4 2023 EDDP report, which you can view here.

Landlords have now filed more evictions in 2023 (1,669) with four months left in the year than in all of 2022 (1,531), according to the latest Tenant Resource Center eviction data. Eviction filings rose slightly in the past three months: Landlords filed 630 eviction actions, involving approximately 493 households, from June 1, 2023 to August 31, 2023 -- a 4% increase compared to the previous quarter. EDDP staff and partners helped tenants in more hearings and trials than ever before, assisting in 913 hearings as well as 45 trials and motion hearings.

Click here to view the published copy of our Q3 EDDP Report covering March-May 2023.

This article comes from our Q3 2023 EDDP report, which you can view here.

In March 2023, the City of Madison and Dane County announced that the Dane CORE 2.0 Emergency Rental Assistance portal would permanently close effective May 31st, 2023. This change came after assessing the remaining amount of federal funds made available through the Emergency Rental Assistance Program administered by the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

This article comes from our Q3 2023 EDDP report, which you can view here.

Landlords benefit from the pressure-cooker nature of eviction court. A notice, filing, initial appearance and trial could all happen in the span of a month, and a tenant is on defense – and at risk of losing their housing – at every step of the process.

This article comes from our Q3 2023 EDDP report, which you can view here.

Eviction filings slowed slightly in the past three months, according to the latest Tenant Resource Center evictions data. Landlords filed 584 eviction actions, involving approximately 560 households, from March 1, 2023 to May 31, 2023 – a 6 percent decrease compared to the previous quarter but still roughly 75% more than the same months last year. In all, EDDP staff and partners assisted in 846 hearings as well as 9 trials.

Click here to view the published copy of our Q2 EDDP Report covering December 2022-February 2023.

This article comes from our Q2 2023 EDDP report, which you can view here.

National research has shed light on who is more likely to face eviction: Black and Latinx renters, renters with lower-income, and women. Still, national data on the demographics of eviction can be hard to come by. Crucial demographic information, such as income, race, gender, and sexual orientation, are rarely collected during the eviction process. Other illuminating details, such as household size, the cost of rent, and type of rental agreement, similarly go uncaptured on a national level.

This article comes from our Q2 2023 EDDP report, which you can view here.

Inequitable barriers in eviction court for tenants with limited English proficiency (LEP) persisted this quarter. Court translators for Spanish-speaking tenants continued to be an underutilized resource for native Spanish-speakers and the translation services available frequently present challenges to tenants – a major concern for EDDP staff and its partners, a number of whom are native-Spanish speakers themselves.

This article comes from our Q2 2023 EDDP report, which you can view here.

A torrent of evictions in Dane County only grew more severe in the past three months, according to the latest Tenant Resource Center evictions data. Landlords filed 619 eviction actions, involving approximately 500 households, from December 1, 2022 to February 28, 2023 – a 40 percent increase over the previous quarter and nearly double the number of evictions during those same months last year. Mirroring previous quarters, most of the evictions were filed due to nonpayment of rent: 538 households (87%) faced eviction due to unpaid rent with the average household owing roughly $2,500; another 18 (3%) due to non-rent related lease violations; and 37 (6%) due to “holding over” past the end of a lease term.

Click here to view the published copy of our Q1 EDDP Report covering September-November 2022.