Tracking Milwaukee Evictions
Branden DuPont
Medical College of Wisconsin
Eviction Database Background
- Eviction database developed as a joint partnership between Legal Action, City of Milwaukee (DNS and City Attorney), and MCW
- Common Council (Alderman Kovac initial sponsor) and Legal Action provided funding for the development of this work
Datashare @ MCW IHE = Local IDS
What Was Built
- Automated database that maintains Milwaukee eviction records
- Pipeline that assigns evictions to an address and taxkey
- Series of visualizations on aggregate eviction metrics
- Parcel level map of eviction filings
- Eviction records with building code violations issued within 90 days as well as open at the time of filing
Reception
- Featured in Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Next City, & The Sunlight Foundation
- Viz Interactions > 70,000
Outcomes & Policy Changes
- Provide stakeholders with a key source of data to inform housing policy and understand drivers of eviction
- Understand relationship between habitability of rental housing and evictions
What's Next
- More nuanced, ongoing understanding of the relationship between housing violations and evictions
- Who Own's What project localized in Milwaukee