Housing Stability, Evictions, and Subsidized Rental Properties: Evidence From Metro Atlanta, Georgia

Austin Harrison, Dan Immergluck, Jeff Ernsthausen and Stephanie Earl

Housing Policy Debate, 2021, vol. 31, issue 3-5, 411-424

Abstract: Evictions cause substantial harm to lower income families. Housing subsidy might be expected to reduce eviction rates and provide greater stability. However, little research has examined the eviction rates of subsidized, affordable rental properties. We examine eviction filings for multifamily rental buildings in five-county metropolitan Atlanta, using a data set of eviction filings, property characteristics, and ownership information. We find that senior, subsidized multifamily properties have substantially lower eviction rates than market-rate properties do. A senior, subsidized multifamily rental building is expected to have an annual eviction rate that is 10.7 percentage points below that of a nonsenior, market-rate property; this result is significant (p

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2020.1798487

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