There were 44206 eviction filings and 8961 evictions across Brooklyn in 2016. Eviction rates and eviction filing rates represent the number of evictions or eviction filings per neighborhood divided by the number of renter occupied households in a given neighborhood - that value is then multipled by 100 to represent a percentage. Rate Discrepancy represents the difference between eviction filing rates and eviction rates. Our motivation for this exploration was the idea that discriminatory practices would manifest in high rate discrepancies, where landlords illegitimately file to evict a tenant.
To further compare eviction rates and filing discrepancies with neighborhood poverty rates and racial composition, we looked at the 10 neighborhoods with the highest rates of poverty, percent nonwhite population, eviction rate, and discrepancy between evicition filing rate and eviction rate. Five neighborhoods appear in all four charts (in red). These findings suggest that eviction filing discrepancies occur in areas that experience other domains of disadvantage. Furthermore, the high filing discrepancy rates may indicate that landlords engage in discriminatory practices against certain populations.
Gloria Hu, Naama Kipperman, Will Simmons, Frances Williams
Visualizations and analyses performed using R (v3.6.1) and RStudio (v1.2.1335).
Additional interactivity added using plotly (v4.9.0) and Shiny (v1.3.2).
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2019