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.

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Track Milwaukee Evictions

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