Mississippi Today (https://mississippitoday.org/category/eviction/)
Mississippi has some of the highest eviction rates in the country. Read Mississippi Today’s full eviction coverage.
An automatic eviction used to mean the tenant had some time — usually 10 days — to move out, Jackson woman was one of the first cases under a new law on Mississippi’s books that allows for immediate evictions once a court rules in a landlord’s favor.
Repeat eviction judgments are commonplace across Mississippi – ranked eighth in the nation for evictions – and justice courts are where most land.
In the reporting of “Fighting to keep my place’: How a housing program to help families out of poverty may trap some in it,” Mississippi Today used the following methodology:
Using Eviction Lab – a Princeton-based research team – data that aggregated every eviction across the nation from 2000 to 2016 and ranked Jackson fifth and Mississippi eighth highest for eviction rates, we analyzed trends and demographic data from the same 17-year window and narrowed our focus to DeSoto and Hinds counties. Tunica had the state’s highest eviction records according to the data, but we excluded it from original analysis due to its small population. We specifically zeroed in on Horn Lake, Southaven and Jackson – all of which consistently ranked highest for mid- to large-size cities for per-capita evictions compared to their county and the state overall, and represent very different parts of the state. In a Mississippi Today analysis of every eviction in DeSoto County from 2006 to July 2018 (more than 17,000 eviction court filings), we found a high rate of repeat evictions in justice court. Repeat evictions differ from estimates of actual removals, calculated by the Eviction Lab.
Lax oversight in a federal housing program leaves a trail of evictions and unanswered questions over its benefit to desperate families