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Preliminary Analysis: Eviction Filing Patterns in 2024 The days of emergency rental assistance and eviction protections are long gone. Now, our data show that landlords are filing evictions at nearly the same levels as before 2020.

In 2024, landlords filed more than a million evictions in the 30+ cities and 10 states we monitor.

While some jurisdictions showed progress, others revealed concerning trends. We’re sounding the alarm in several cities. Learn more in our 2024 report: evictionlab.org/ets-report-2...

The Education Recovery Explorer Compare pandemic learning loss and recovery in districts and states across the country.

At a time when education data and research are both critically important and increasingly imperiled, we're honored to offer tools like the Recovery Explorer that serve as crucial resources for understanding key social and policy questions. edopportunity.org/recovery/explorer

Most US kids aren't gaining fast enough in reading and math. These schools are different The average American student remains half a grade level behind pre-pandemic levels of achievement in both reading and math.

AP: apnews.com/article/math...

A deep dive on U.S. reading and math scores, and what to do about them New research drills down on poor student achievement and notes some school districts that are beating the odds.

NPR: www.npr.org/2025/02/11/n...

Covid Learning Losses We explain the ways students haven’t recovered.

For more on the research behind these tools, see coverage in The New York Times: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/b...

The Explorer also lets you generate custom, visualization-rich PDF reports for over 9,000 districts and states – you can check out a sample report here: edopportunity.org/reports/reco...

Developed in partnership with The Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford and Harvard's CEPR, the Recovery Explorer is a powerful data tool that includes updated annual estimates of student achievement in math and reading, as well as a new metric for chronic absenteeism.

5 years after COVID disrupted education in the U.S., questions about learning loss & recovery demand continued examination. To meet this need, we launched our 3rd annual update of the Education Recovery Explorer: edopportunity.org/recovery/exp...

And at this critical moment for the nation & the world, we are redoubling our commitment to driving social change through research, design, and advocacy in 2025 and beyond.

Happy new year!

We're immensely grateful to work every day with some of the smartest, most innovative, and influential thinkers & organizations in the world.

We also debuted our own new website, featuring a growing list of case studies showcasing our projects.

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And we added many new jurisdictions to the Debt Collection Lab’s Tracker dashboard, along with a home for research papers and a new documentary release.

debtcollectionlab.org/lawsuit-trac...

For our longtime collaborators at UCLA Law, we developed the Behind Bars Data project, a new site tracking carceral mortality.

uclaprisondata.org

Home • ZERO Lab • Princeton University

We launched a new site for Professor Jesse Jenkins’ ZERO Lab at Princeton to disseminate research on net-zero carbon energy systems.

zero.lab.princeton.edu

A multiyear effort, the Justice Outcomes Explorer is a powerful tool for multidimensional exploration of criminal legal system data, built in partnership with the University of Michigan and the U.S. Census Bureau.

joe.cjars.org

The Budget Equity Project, developed for The Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy at The New School, is a website designed to assess equity in local governments’ distribution of ARPA funds.

budgetequity.racepowerpolicy.org

The Segregation Explorer, created in partnership with researchers at USC and Stanford, is a tool that visualizes decades of data on racial and economic segregation.

edopportunity.org/segregation/...

As we wrap up 2024, Hyperobjekt celebrates another year of impactful work and partnerships both new and enduring. With so many incredible projects this year, we can’t showcase them all, but we’re excited to share a few highlights:

Preliminary Analysis: Eviction Filing Patterns in 2023 As the United States moves past the COVID-19 pandemic, low-income renters face a deeply inhospitable housing market. We investigate how this affected eviction rates in 2023.

Our eviction tracking system records eviction filings for cities that include Houston, Philadelphia and Boston, areas that in total include about 1 in 3 American renters.

Our latest blog post shows how these areas were impacted by evictions in 2023:

evictionlab.org/ets-report-2...

The 2019-2023 Education Recovery Explorer Compare pandemic learning loss and recovery in districts and states across the country.

Check out how our team is making these data accessible on the web at edopportunity.org/recovery

Students Are Making a ‘Surprising’ Rebound From Pandemic Closures. But Some May Never Catch Up. The first detailed nationwide data on schools’ recovery shows that achievement gaps have widened, with the poorest students the furthest behind.

Important new research from longtime partners The Educational Opportunity Project @ Stanford