Evictions are commonplace in the United States, and their negative consequences are broad and severe. However, research on evictions to date has focused primarily on urban areas, and thus has not addressed the impact evictions have on rural renters. This paper offers the first comprehensive analysis of evictions in rural communities, where the number of renters has been increasing in recent decades. We use Eviction Lab's national eviction database to study the approximately 220,000 evictions filed in rural counties each year. While the majority of rural evictions affect families with a white head of household (57 percent in 2010), eviction filing rates are four times higher among rural Black renters than among rural white renters. Eviction filing rates are highest in heavily Black counties in the rural southeast. While eviction filings are somewhat lower in rural majority-Hispanic counties, these communities experience low-quality informal housing and overcrowding. Eviction rates are also higher in rural counties with higher rent burdens and where more households include children.

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美国农村的驱逐和出租屋危机☆

驱逐在美国很常见，其负面后果广泛而严重。然而，迄今为止关于驱逐的研究主要集中在城市地区，因此没有解决驱逐对农村租房者的影响。本文首次对农村社区的驱逐行为进行了全面分析，近几十年来，农村社区的租房者数量一直在增加。我们使用 Eviction Lab 的国家驱逐数据库来研究每年在农村县提交的约 220,000 起驱逐案件。虽然大多数农村驱逐影响的是白人户主的家庭（2010 年为 57%），但农村黑人租房者的驱逐申请率是农村白人租房者的四倍。东南部农村地区黑人人口较多的县的驱逐申请率最高。虽然在西班牙裔人口占多数的农村县，驱逐申请数量略低，但这些社区的非正规住房质量低下且过度拥挤。在租金负担较高且家庭中有儿童较多的农村县，驱逐率也较高。