Evictions are Incompatible with Housing Justice

An eviction isn’t a single event. They are the culmination of a series of choices and decisions made by people with unequal knowledge, power, and resources within an unjust legal system.

Evictions are preventable; but are inevitable in an unjust housing system.

Evictions are violent; but are tolerated by an unjust political system.

Evicted in Oregon is a research project interested in understanding how evictions happen, for the purpose of eliminating them.

  • How Evictions Work

    Evictions are a process, a series of steps defined in landlord-tenant law, with a range of outcomes. Evictions can also happen outside the legal system and outside of view to policy-makers and researchers.

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  • Latest Eviction Data

    Eviction data including number of, rates of legal representation, top evictors, and outcomes of eviction cases for the state of Oregon.

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  • Working with the Data

    What does all this mean? How can this data be useful to tenants and organizers?

    Includes context for the data and a glossary of terms.

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