{"id":48528,"date":"2026-03-03T13:30:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T18:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newamerica.org\/?post_type=impact&#038;p=48528"},"modified":"2026-03-03T13:30:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T18:30:50","slug":"establishing-a-national-housing-loss-rate","status":"publish","type":"impact","link":"https:\/\/www.newamerica.org\/impact\/establishing-a-national-housing-loss-rate\/","title":{"rendered":"Establishing a National Housing Loss Rate"},"template":"","issue_tax":[],"topic_tax":[],"program_tax":[],"project_tax":[],"location":[],"class_list":["post-48528","impact","type-impact","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"details":{"abstract":"","featured_image":48529,"override_caption":false,"caption":""},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"add_background_color":true,"content":"<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Every year, millions of Americans lose their homes through eviction, foreclosure, or other forms of displacement. Yet for decades, there has been no reliable national system for tracking these losses. In many counties, eviction data simply does not exist.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Without timely, accurate data on eviction and housing loss, policymakers and advocates have struggled to prevent housing instability before it becomes a crisis.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Through its Future of Land and Housing program, New America set out to change that. The team convened researchers, housing advocates, and public agencies to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2023\/05\/04\/solving-the-housing-crisis-00095075\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">develop a \u201cnational housing loss rate\u201d<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014a standardized way to measure displacement across the country.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Their work helped establish new <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newamerica.org\/future-land-housing\/reports\/understanding-evictions-a-guide-to-using-local-court-data\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">data standards<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, influenced federal budget language, and spurred the development of advanced tracking tools. 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