Track Milwaukee Evictions

Branden DuPont

Data Analyst

Medical College of Wisconsin

Institute for Health Equity

Division of Epidemiology

DataShare

Overview

• History/Need
• Review of work to match an eviction record to an address/taxkey and underlying work
• Tour of eviction visualizations and site
• Thanks to the Common Council and City, Alderman Kovac in particular for sponsoring the development of this work
• City Staff at the Department of Neighborhood Services, ITMD, and the City Attorney’s Office

History/Need

• Renewed focus on preventing eviction
  
• Milwaukee policymakers, researchers, and community partners lack access to eviction data
• Partnership between MCW, Legal Action, City Attorney's Office, & Milwaukee Neighborhood Services

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
• Hosted on a website, where it updates the monthly

Match an Eviction Record to a Location

• Drew from an established set of guidelines set forth by Matt Desmond's Eviction Lab Methods Report
• Defendant in case earliest address is used to represent an eviction location

  • Series of steps to match the defendant address to exact address listed by City of Milwaukee to get Taxkey

  • 94.8% match rate compared to 93% match for Eviction Lab

What Is A Taxkey or Parcel

Taxkey is a unique ten-digit number assigned to each parcel.

https://mke-evict.com/

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