Evictions destabilize lives. In addition to depriving families of their home, they entail major lasting financial, social, and health costs.. This panel of non-profit researchers, government operators, and private sector technologists showcases how experts harness various data sources to trace and anticipate eviction trends, as well as the impact of experimental interventions intended to mitigate this epidemic. Learn how tax assessor, rental registration, demographic, court case macros, and police calls for service can be used as eviction risk indicators providing key insights for policy makers and program managers to stabilize housing.

Panelists

Anthony Dedousis and Stan Oklobdzija. Anthony is the Director of Policy and ResearchatAbundantHousingLosAngeles(AHLA). Inadditiontoengagingin advocacy work with Los Angeles and Los Angeles County, he uses administrative data to reveal the unequal effects of underinvestment in housing. Stan is the Research Director for California YIMBY. He directs efforts to better understand the causes and consequences of the state’s housing crisis, as well as helping to promote policies designed to make California more equitable and inclusive.

Rick Ryba. Rich worked in Long Beach’s Department of Development Services as a FUSE Corps fellow. In this role, Ryba has led an initiative to provide affordable housing options for residents who are being priced out. Rick Ryba helped the city implement its plan to address housing deficiencies through citing alternative and new end-uses, focusing on priorities with the broadest potential impact and identifying funding sources. Through this experience, he confronted Andrew Kieve. Andrew is the Co-Founder of Tolemi. He will explain how data-sharing and analytics drive state and local housing stabilization strategies to mitigate displacement arising from the opposite spectrum of forces from systematic disinvestment to gentrification. Examples will span Grass Valley and San Jose in California, as well as St. Louis and Boston.

Moderator

Evelyn Blumenberg. Professor Blumenberg directs UCLA’s Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies. A professor of urban planning, she researches poverty, transportation, and housing.