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93 U. Cin. L. Rev. 1 (2024-2025)

handle is hein.journals/ucinlr93 and id is 1 raw text is: RURAL RENTING: AN EMPIRICAL PORTRAIT OF EVICTION Cassie Chambers Armstrong* & Christopher J. Ryan, Jr.** INTRODUCTION Eviction in America is at a crisis level. Recent estimates suggest landlords file evictions against 2.7 million households-or 7% of all renters-every year.1 Unsurprisingly, this number decreased during the COVID-19 pandemic,2 likely because of policies that prohibited some types of evictions.3 Similarly, heightened emphasis on rental assistance funding and eviction diversion programs lowered the number of eviction cases.4 But data from 2022 show that-as these policies and programs expire-eviction rates are rising once again.5 An increase in evictions matters because of the ways eviction impacts individuals. Research shows that those under threat of eviction experience many negative mental and physical health outcomes such as psychological distress, suicidal ideation, high blood pressure, and child maltreatment.6 Eviction is linked to mental health hospitalizations and all- cause mortality.7 It decreases civic engagement, and it increases stress.8 * Cassie Chambers Armstrong is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law. We wish to thank Nicole Summers, Ariana Levinson, and Susan Tanner for providing helpful feedback on this Article in its formative stages. We also extend gratitude to Pat Smith, who assisted our efforts in compiling the data used in this Article, and the Kentucky Administrative Office of the Courts for supplying us with some of the underlying data we employ in this Article. We are grateful to the faculty at the University of Cincinnati College of Law for their feedback on this Article through the Faculty Workshop Exchange Program. ** Christopher J. Ryan, Jr., is a Professor of Law at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Affiliated Scholar at the American Bar Foundation, and Academic Affiliate at the International Center for Law & Economics. 1. Ashley Gromis et al., Estimating Eviction Prevalence Across the United States, 119 PROC. NAT'L ACAD. SCIS., 7 (2022). 2. Camila Vallejo, Jacob Haas, & Peter Hepburn, Preliminary Analysis: Eviction Filing Patterns in 2022, EVICTION LAB (Mar. 9, 2023), https://evictionlab.org/ets-report-2022/. 3. Specifically, evictions for nonpayment of rent. Id. 4. Id. 5. Id.; see also Claire Thornton, A lot offear': Rent Hikes Across the Country Mean Eviction Noticesfor Many Americans, USA TODAY (Jul. 5, 2023), https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/ 2023/07/05/rising-rents-eviction-notices-across-us/70349779007/. 6. Hugo VAsquez-Vera et al., The threat of home eviction and its effects on health through the equity lens: A systematic review, 175 SOC. SCI. & MED. 199, 205 (2017). 7. Gracie Himmelstein & Matthew Desmond, Eviction and Health: A Vicious Cycle Exacerbated by a Pandemic, HEALTH AFFS. (Apr. 1, 2021), https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/ hpb20210315.747908/. 8. No Eviction Without Representation, AM. CIV. LIBERTIES UNION (2022), https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/fielddocument/no_eviction without representationresearch_b riefO.pdf. 1

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