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
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Series of steps to match the defendant address to exact address listed by City of Milwaukee to get Taxkey
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94.8% match rate compared to 93% match for Eviction Lab
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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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Track Milwaukee Evictions
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