2019 - 2020
Each year, nearly 5 million Americans lose their homes through eviction and foreclosure. These forced displacements are intensely traumatic financially, physically, and emotionally. Children have to switch schools, parents lose their jobs, families’ possessions end up on the sidewalk, and suicide rates spike. This report, led by New America, visualizes housing loss at the county level nationwide, and includes a National Housing Loss Index to reveal where housing instability is most acute.