Professor Benfer served as an Equal Justice Works Fellow and a Peace Corps volunteer.

Emily is the Chair of the American Bar Association’s Task Force on Eviction, Housing Stability, and Equity and a member of the Legal Services Corporation U.S. Emily has widely published, testified before Congress and appeared in numerous media outlets on these topics. Her clinic practice and research focus on the intersection of social determinants of health, racial inequity, and poverty with an emphasis on housing and eviction policies. eviction and housing policy, including eviction moratoria at the federal, state, and local level. As a research collaborator with the Lab, she conducts legal mapping and policy surveillance of U.S. She first collaborated with the Eviction Lab in March 2020 to create the COVID-19 Housing Policy Scorecard. Benfer is a visiting professor of law and public health at Wake Forest University. A Contributing Writer for the New York Times Magazine, Desmond was listed in 2016 among the Politico 50, as one of “fifty people across the country who are most influencing the national political debate.”Įmily A. He is the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award, and the William Julius Wilson Early Career Award. The principal investigator of The Eviction Lab, Desmond’s research focuses on poverty in America, city life, housing insecurity, public policy, racial inequality, and ethnography. He is the author of four books, including Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (2016), which won the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Carnegie Medal, and PEN / John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction. in 2010 from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, he joined the Harvard Society of Fellows as a Junior Fellow. During Professor of Sociology at Princeton University.

Together, we hope our findings will inform programs to prevent eviction and family homelessness, raise awareness of the centrality of housing insecurity in the lives of low-income families, and deepen our understanding of the fundamental drivers of poverty in America. Researchers can use the data to help us document the prevalence, causes, and consequences of eviction and to evaluate laws and policies designed to promote residential security and reduce poverty. You can look at evictions over time, map evictions in the United States, compare the eviction rates of different neighborhoods, cities, or states, and generate custom reports about America’s eviction epidemic. We hope this data is used by policymakers, community organizers, journalists, educators, non-profit organizations, students, and citizens interested in understanding more about housing, eviction, and poverty in their own backyards. Through this website, the Eviction Lab has made nationwide eviction data publicly available and accessible.

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