rate of eviction judgments in 2016
City
Eviction filing rate
Eviction judgment rate
1
North Charleston, S.C.
35.6%
16.5%
2
Richmond, Va.
30.9%
11.4%
3
Hampton, Va.
37.3%
10.5%
4
Newport News, Va.
34.1%
10.2%
5
Jackson, Miss.
11.6%
8.8%
6
Norfolk, Va.
27.6%
8.7%
7
Greensboro, N.C.
19.8%
8.4%
8
Columbia, S.C.
20.4%
8.2%
9
Warren, Mich.
29.8%
8.1%
10
Chesapeake, Va.
23.7%
7.9%
RICHMOND, Va. — Before the first hearings on the morning docket, the line starts to clog the lobby of the John Marshall Courthouse. No cellphones are allowed inside, but many of the people who’ve been summoned don’t learn that until they arrive. “Put it in your car,” the sheriff’s deputies suggest at the metal detector. That advice is no help to renters who have come by bus. To make it inside, some tuck their phones in the bushes nearby.
This courthouse handles every eviction in Richmond, a city with one of the highest eviction rates in the country, according to new data covering dozens of states and compiled by a team led by the Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond.
Two years ago, […]
