Residential evictions executed by city marshals

[AmandaDoyle]

Description: Number of residential evictions executed by marshal

Logic:

• Assign PUMA to each record
• Sum the number of evictions that have happened since Jan 1, 2017 (earliest eviction is Jan 3, 2017)

Source(s): https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/Evictions/6z8x-wfk4

Year(s):

• [ ] 2017-present

Geographies:

• [ ] PUMA
• [ ] Borough
• [ ] City

Race and ethnicity breakdown: No Denominator:

SME: HPD

Questions:

Roadblocks:

[SashaWeinstein]

Around 90% of the evictions have a lat/long and can be assigned to a PUMA without geocoding. The evictions without coordinates seem to be mostly misspellings and records with addresses like "1013 EAST 96TH STREET - BASEMENT-REAR ROOM" Should we try to geocode these 10% of records? Around 6.3k evictions

[AmandaDoyle]

Yes, if it's low hanging fruit we should try to geocode the records and increase the percentage of records with lat/longs and/or add PUMA info from GeoSupport

[SashaWeinstein]

Geocoding is documented in issue #63.

I don't know if writing tests for this indicator really makes sense as I don't know how to run the tests in a container in github actions. If unit tests are written here are two I think could be helpful:

1. Ensure the PUMA assigned from the geocoding matches the borough of the eviction
2. Make sure that total evictions citywide equals sum of evictions across all boroughs. Assume each eviction gets a borough, we know this not to be true for PUMAs

[SashaWeinstein]

Hey @AmandaDoyle is evictions a suitable indicator label? evictionscitymarshals seems a little wordy. We also have an eviction cases filed indicator but that indicator has "filings" in the label

[levysamu]

What are you all using to calculate the rate for this indicator? Are you using the units_occupied field that comes from PUMS?

[AmandaDoyle]

@levysamu we aren't calculating a rate. This is just a count.

[levysamu]

Ok, so we don't have the information to populate the below screenshot?

[AmandaDoyle]

Correct, as you saw in the email with HPD from Mon 2/28/2022 it was decided it would be inappropriate to calculate the rate. Leaving comment for documentation purposes.