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5-026-Evictions-ModelingScenario

Author(s): Mary Vanderschoot

Wheaton College, Wheaton IL USA

Keywords: carrying capacity compartment eviction homeowner SIS model homelessness

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Resource Image In this project, students develop two SIS models to study eviction trends in a population of non-homeowner households using an actual eviction rate. Students can calculate solutions, sketch the phase portrait, and determine long-term trends .

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According to the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, unaffordable rents and a lack of legal protections for renters have created a national ``eviction epidemic'' . Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, and director of the Eviction Lab at Princeton University, estimates that 2.3 million evictions were filed in the U.S. in 2016 (four evictions per minute).

Desmond writes, ``Eviction is a direct cause of homelessness, but it also is a cause of residential instability, school instability [and] community instability''. In this project you will develop and analyze two mathematical models to study eviction trends in a city using an actual eviction rate.

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Author(s): Mary Vanderschoot

Wheaton College, Wheaton IL USA

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