“Our Customer Is America”: Housing Insecurity and Eviction in Las Vegas, Nevada’s Postcrisis Rental Markets

Seymour, Eric; Akers, Joshua

doi:10.1080/10511482.2020.1822903

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“…El resultado ha sido un aumento importante de los desahucios de las viviendas en alquiler, desde 2015, en aquellas zonas en las que se manifestaban mejor las tensiones inflacionistas, en especial centros urbanos y espacios litorales en los que la vivienda turística se había implantado con fuerza. El papel de los grandes agentes inversores se ha mostrado como esencial en esta nueva fase de acumulación por desposesión centrada en la vivienda en alquiler (Méndez Gutiérrez del Valle, 2021;Seymour y Akers, 2020).…”

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Etnificación, desahucio por impago de alquileres y desplazamiento residencial en una ciudad turística insular (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - España)

2021

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Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Canarias) es una capital insular que, dada su especialización urbano-turística, atrae visitantes, turistas y migrantes extranjeros. En el cambio de siglo, durante el periodo de expansión económica, se incrementaron los flujos de inmigración laboral y afectaron, especialmente, al espacio central de la ciudad y al entorno de su área litoral de ocio. Sin embargo, a partir de la crisis económica del año 2008 y posteriores, estos espacios centrales, que habían constituido las áreas preferentes de residencia de la población extranjera, vieron multiplicarse los desahucios por el impago de rentas. Con el proceso de recuperación económica, desde 2014, esta tendencia se ha mantenido. Este trabajo pretende, en primer lugar, analizar la relación espacial que parece existir entre la presencia de población nacida en el extranjero y los procesos de desahucio por impago de alquileres entre 2008 y 2017. En segundo lugar, estudiar el desplazamiento residencial de este colectivo, que se produce en paralelo al incremento de los precios y lanzamientos de las viviendas en alquiler y, por último, indagar en el proceso de sustitución residencial por origen que parece acompañarlo. La combinación de datos que proporcionan las Estadísticas del Padrón Continuo, sobre población nacida en el extranjero, y el Registro del Servicio Común de Notificaciones y Embargos de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, sobre desahucios, nos ha permitido realizar un análisis cartográfico y estadístico con estos propósitos.

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Etnificación, desahucio por impago de alquileres y desplazamiento residencial en una ciudad turística insular (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - España)

2021

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“…These firms now control large segments of the suburban rental markets, especially throughout the Sunbelt (Immergluck 2018), and have adopted a series of cost-savings strategies and scale efficiencies that allow them to operate in a fashion similar to larger urban landlords (Semuels 2019). Previous single-city studies have documented how owner characteristics affect eviction risk (Gomory 2021; Immergluck et al 2019; Raymond et al 2021; Seymour and Akers 2021a, 2021b). Future research should examine how these patterns affect suburban housing and how that results in more or less concentration of evictions in these spaces (Rutan and Desmond 2021).…”

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“…The extant literature on the correlates of displacement provides a description of the factors that are, in the urban context, associated with higher rates of eviction. These include characteristics of buildings, such as corporate ownership of the property or scale of landlord's holdings (Gomory 2021; Immergluck 2018; Seymour and Akers 2021a, 2021b). Certain tenants, especially Black renters and women, are at higher risk of eviction than others (Desmond and Valdez 2012; Hepburn, Louis, and Desmond 2020).…”

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Beyond Urban Displacement: Suburban Poverty and Eviction

Hepburn

Rutan

Desmond

2022

Urban Affairs Review

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Eviction has been studied almost exclusively as an urban phenomenon. The growing suburbanization of poverty in the United States, however, provides new cause to analyze the prevalence and correlates of displacement beyond cities. This study analyzes urban-suburban disparities in eviction rates across 71 large metropolitan areas. We show that eviction is a common experience in suburbs as well as cities. Urban eviction rates exceed suburban rates in most cases, but in one in six metropolitan areas experienced higher eviction rates in the suburbs. Multilevel models show that key correlates of eviction—especially poverty and median rent—influence eviction patterns differently in urban and suburban contexts. We explore variations in urban-suburban disparities through case studies of Milwaukee, Seattle, and Miami. Metropolitan areas with larger shifts toward suburban poverty, more expensive urban rental markets, and more segregated suburbs experience more suburban evictions.

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“…Hotspots of foreclosed single-family homes in the US Sunbelt gave way to a single-family rental (SFR) market owned largely by institutional investors (Fields, 2018; Immergluck and Law, 2014). Consolidated ownership of these assets has created a “near-oligopolistic control of SFR in some neighborhoods” (Charles, 2020: 17) that has given investors potential pricing power (Christophers, 2021) and the ability to exercise anticompetitive conduct in the form of evictions (Seymour and Akers, 2021). These dynamics now spillover into the multifamily market.…”

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An antitrust framework for housing

Tapp

Peiser

2022

Environ Plan A

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This article contributes to debates within the financialization literature by examining the rise of monopolies in the US’ rental housing market. Drawing on a dataset of multifamily real estate transactions taken from the poorest census tracts in the US (so-called Opportunity Zones), we develop an antitrust framework and methodology for measuring market structure in housing using the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index. After detailing the geography of these market dynamics, we assess the specific strategies firms use to acquire market power and extract monopoly rents. This analysis reveals three critical aspects of real estate investors’ anticompetitive conduct: integration between housing subsectors, acquisition strategies that rapidly scale up ownership, and corporate forms that promote cooperation. The framework developed in this article and subsequent findings offer three directions policymakers, regulators, and activists can take to reform antitrust law and better ensure affordable housing.

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“Our Customer Is America”: Housing Insecurity and Eviction in Las Vegas, Nevada’s Postcrisis Rental Markets

Cited by 18 publications

References 37 publications

Etnificación, desahucio por impago de alquileres y desplazamiento residencial en una ciudad turística insular (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - España)

Etnificación, desahucio por impago de alquileres y desplazamiento residencial en una ciudad turística insular (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - España)

Beyond Urban Displacement: Suburban Poverty and Eviction

An antitrust framework for housing

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