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The Suburbanization of Eviction: Increasing Displacement and Inequality Within American Suburbs

Devin Q. Rutan, Peter Hepburn, Matthew Desmond
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences February 2023, 9 (1) 104-125; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2023.9.1.05
Devin Q. Rutan
aPhD candidate of sociology and social policy at Princeton University, United States
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Peter Hepburn
bAssistant professor of sociology at Rutgers University-Newark, United States
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Matthew Desmond
cMaurice P. During Professor of Sociology at Princeton University, United States
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Abstract

The suburbanization of poverty in the United States coincided with surging housing costs and growing rent burdens. Although much of the existing literature on eviction focuses on housing insecurity and displacement in cities, there is good reason to suspect that it has become an equally common phenomenon in the suburbs. This study evaluates changes in the frequency of urban and suburban evictions over time across seventy-four large metropolitan areas. Multilevel models show that the number of suburban evictions has steadily risen over time, even as urban evictions have been stable. The cases of Cleveland, Seattle, and Tampa demonstrate that the increase in suburban evictions is concentrated in pockets of the suburbs. Additional analyses reveal large geographic and racial inequalities in suburban displacement.

  • suburban poverty
  • eviction
  • neighborhood inequality
  • displacement
  • © 2023 Russell Sage Foundation. Rutan, Devin Q., Peter Hepburn, and Matthew Desmond. 2023. “The Suburbanization of Eviction: Increasing Displacement and Inequality Within American Suburbs.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 9(1): 104–25. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2023.9.1.05. The JPB, Gates, and Ford Foundations, as well as the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, funded this research. The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number P2CHD047879 supported the research reported in this article. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health. Direct correspondence to: Devin Rutan, at drutan{at}princeton.edu, 225 Wallace Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544, United States.

Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

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