DC's Eviction Filings Are Down. Are High Rents to Blame?
Blog post by Maya Brennan
May 31, 2018
Urban–Greater DC
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Washington, D.C.
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Despite high rents in the District of Columbia, annual reports from the DC courts show a downward trend in eviction filings. The number of evictions filed by landlords fell from 48,000 in 2003 to just over 31,000 in 2017. During a period in which DC added renter households , why would eviction filings go down?