Evictions fell slightly in 2025, but some areas saw upticks, report finds

By: Robbie Sequeira

Outlets: Stateline

Published: April 20, 2026

Words: 342

Last Updated: 3 months, 1 week ago

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Eviction filings fell in 2025 for the second straight year in the cities and states tracked in a new report — areas home to roughly a third of the country’s renters — though some of those places saw increases.

Landlords filed more than 1.23 million eviction cases in the 10 states and 38 cities where data was collected by Princeton University’s Eviction Lab, a research center. That’s slightly lower than the 1.25 million in …

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