RVA EVICTION LAB

  • Observing Virginia’s Eviction Courts in Summer 2022

    The Importance of Legal Representation and Judicial Approach* Georgia Clark, (Class of 2024), Government and Sociology major at William & Mary Maggie Inglesby, (Class of 2024), Sociology and Government major at William & Mary. Introduction We are William & Mary students who spent the summer of 2022 observing eviction court… Read More⇢

  • Announcing the Virginia Evictors Catalog!

    _____________________________________________________________________ Visit the Virginia Evictors Catalog November 10, 2022 Press Contacts:Sarah Medley, The Equity Center, University of Virginia, smedley@virginia.edu Kathryn Howell, RVA Eviction Lab, L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs, Virginia Commonwealth University, klhowell@vcu.edu Who is Filing Evictions in Virginia? The social cost of housing instability is enormous. It… Read More⇢

  • 2nd and 3rd QUARTER (2022) REPORTS ANALYSIS

    Hannah Woehrle, Wilder Fellow RVA Eviction Lab October, 2022 This memo is meant to contextualize and expand on the findings highlighted in the recently released Second and Third Quarter RVA Eviction Lab Data Reports. The reports cover eviction data across the Commonwealth of Virginia from April to September, 2022. Individually,… Read More⇢

  • Eviction Lab Quarterly Report Q2 2022

    In this quarterly report, the RVA Eviction Lab presents and analyzes a series of data on eviction and housing instability in Virginia during the second quarter of 2022. As in our previous reports, we compare 2022 quarterly eviction data to pre-pandemic levels, using the 2019 quarterly data as a benchmark.… Read More⇢

  • THE VIRGINIA EVICTION REDUCTION PILOT PROGRAM: FINAL REPORT ON PHASE 1

    In the Fall of 2020, the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development released a request for proposals for the Virginia Eviction Reduction Pilot (VERP) Program. Intended to inform post-crisis eviction prevention, VERP 1.0 relied on community-serving organizations – both government and nonprofit – to develop context-responsive assistance that stabilized… Read More⇢

  • 1st Quarter Report: January-March 2022

    In this quarterly report, the RVA Eviction Lab presents and analyzes a series of data on eviction and housing instability in Virginia during the first quarter of 2022. As in our previous reports, we compare 2022 quarterly eviction data to pre-pandemic levels, using the 2019 quarterly data as a benchmark.… Read More⇢

  • 4th Quarter Report: October-December 2021

    Executive Summary In this quarterly report, the RVA Eviction Lab presents and analyzes a series of data on eviction and housing instability in Virginia during the fourth quarter of 2021 as well as an overview of 2021 as a whole. As in our previous reports, we compare 2021 quarterly eviction… Read More⇢

  • Eviction, Legal Counsel and the Courthouse

    In October, we released a blog post from students who spent the summer observing cases in eviction court. Today, we are releasing our newest report, titled, “Eviction, Legal Counsel and the Courthouse.” In this in-depth report, we combine the data from summer eviction court observations with Virginia court records to… Read More⇢

  • **NEW** 3rd Quarter (July-September) 2021 Report on Evictions in Virginia

    Executive Summary In this quarterly report, the RVA Eviction Lab presents and analyzes a series of data on eviction and housing instability in Virginia during the third quarter of 2021. As in our previous reports, we compare 2021 quarterly eviction data to pre-pandemic levels, using the 2019 quarterly data as… Read More⇢