Data includes filings from Eastern Housing Court, housing courts in Chelsea, Brookline, Cambridge, Newton, Somerville, and the following BMC courts — Brighton, Central, Charlestown, Dorchester, East Boston, Roxbury, South Boston and West Roxbury. Each filing was geocoded to a census tract and only cases that were active, open, or suspended due to COVID-19 at the time the data was first collected are included in the analysis. Some case statuses may have updated and may not show up in the analysis.
Source: Massachusetts courts data collected by The Eviction Lab and January Advisors
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