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New Project By Author Of 'Evicted' Tracks Evictions Nationwide

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Cities in Northeast Ohio have eviction rates that are pretty close to the national average, according to data compiled by researchers at Princeton University. 

In 2016, the most recent year of records compiled by Princeton professor Matthew Desmond, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning book Evicted: Profit and Poverty in the American City, 6 percent of renters were evicted in Akron.

That was the 23 rd highest rate among cities in the US.

In Cleveland, 4.5 percent of renters were evicted in 2016, the national average was 2.3 percent.

At the upper end of the study was North Charleston, South Carolina, with a rate of 16.5 percent. Five of the top ten sites were in Virginia.

Desmond and researchers at Princeton have launched a website where they compiled eviction records for much of the US going back to 2000.

Matthew Richmond is a reporter/producer focused on criminal justice issues at Ideastream Public Media.