Indy Evictions May Reach 34,000 or More in 2020
Blog post by Jeramy Townsley and Matt Nowlin
August 19, 2020
The Polis Center
(
Indianapolis
)
The authors estimate the impact that the increase in unemployment will have on the eviction rate in Marion County. They first modeled variables such as demographics, long-term economic conditions, and unemployment statistics to predict the 2016 eviction rates, and then applied that model to predict the potential evictions in 2020.