Super Session:
Causes and Consequences of Eviction
(Housing, Community Development, and Urban Policy)
*Names in bold indicate Presenter
This panel brings together a multi-disciplinary group of young scholars doing ground-breaking work on eviction in America. Sociological research has led to growing awareness of the scale of eviction and its significance as a public policy challenge. Considerable work remains to be done, however, in detailing the causes and consequences of eviction. Such work is crucial to informing policies aimed at reducing eviction rates and ameliorating the effects of forced displacement.
The first two papers (presented by James Hendrickson and Tim Thomas) raise questions of where we should be looking for eviction hot spots. Using nationally-representative data, Hendrickson details the outsize role of public housing authorities in the eviction crisis. Thomas examines eviction in the context of neighborhood change, and specifically how gentrification is related to forced mobility.
The latter two papers (presented by Gillian Slee and Rob Collinson) address the consequences of eviction. Slee raises a novel question in eviction research: how does forced displacement affect civic engagement (in the form of voting)? Collinson tackles one of the most significant questions in the field: what effects does eviction have on children? Families with children are at increased risk of eviction, and as such understanding the effects of displacement is crucial to developing child welfare and education policy.
Chair: Peter Hepburn, Princeton University
Discussants: Elizabeth Kneebone, University of California - Berkeley; Jacob William Faber, New York University
James Hendrickson, Princeton University; Ashley Gromis, Princeton Eviction Lab; Matthew Desmond, Princeton University - The Role of Public Housing in the National Eviction Crisis
Tim Thomas, University of Washington; Ott Toomet, University of Washington; Ian Kennedy, University of Washington; Alex Ramiller, University of Washington - The State of Evictions: Measuring Prevalence and Disparate Impact in Washington’s Changing Cities
Gillian Slee, Princeton University; Matthew Desmond, Princeton University - Evictions and Voting: Forced Mobility and Participatory Inequality
Robert Collinson, Duke University; Davin Reed, Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy - The Effects of Evictions on Low-Income Families
