Serial Eviction Filing: Civil Courts, Property Management, and the Threat of Displacement.
Drawing on over 8 million eviction court records from twenty-eight states, this study shows the role that eviction filings play in extracting monetary sanctions from tenants. In so doing, it documents an unanticipated feature of housing insecurity: serial eviction filings. Serial eviction filings oc...
| Publicado en: | Social Forces Vol. 100; no. 1; pp. 316 - 345 |
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Sep2021
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