New Reports and Data from PD&R

Imputing Year Built with Property Tax Data

The American Housing Survey and the American Community Survey ask respondents about when their housing unit was built. Year built is also captured in property records and tax assessment records. This whitepaper presents discussion and analysis that was performed to assess using property tax data to impute year built for respondents who did not provide valid responses. The whitepaper concludes with a recommendation on how to impute year-built data.

Imputing Lot Size with Property Tax Data

The American Housing Survey and the American Community Survey ask respondents about the size of their lot. Lot size is also captured in property records and tax assessment records. This whitepaper presents discussion and analysis that was performed to assess using property tax data to impute lot size for respondents who have a matched property tax record. The whitepaper concludes with a recommendation on how to impute lot size.

Report to Congress on the Feasibility of Creating a National Evictions Database

The Joint Explanatory Statement and the House Committee Report supporting the 2021 Appropriations Act directed HUD to study the feasibility of creating an evictions database, including collecting information on three types of evictions:

• Formal court-ordered evictions.
• Extra-legal evictions.
• Administrative evictions.

The report provides background on the need for an eviction database, a detailed discussion of lessons learned to date from efforts to collect data on court-ordered, extra-legal, and administrative evictions, including evictions of HUD-assisted households, and a set of potential approaches for how HUD could move forward to build a national dataset on evictions, assuming additional federal funding and action from Congress.

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