Higher rents and eviction proceedings — even those that do not result in evictions — are linked to increased mortality, according to a newstudy by researchers at the University’s Eviction Lab and the Census Bureau.

Nick Graetz is the lead author of the paper and a postdoctoral research associate at the Eviction Lab, a group of researchers led by Professor Matthew Desmond studying eviction, housing insecurity, and poverty.

“We’ve never truly known who gets evicted nationwide, or what happens to folks following an eviction,” Graetz said in an interview with The Daily Princetonian.

The study builds off of the Eviction Lab’s existing database of eviction court filings and records going back to 2000, a first-of-its-kind dataset that aims to capture the scope of evictions nationwide. Using names and addresses, Graetz and his fellow researchers linked 38 million eviction records to census data, allowing them to track mortality over a 20-year period.

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