Community-Centered Analysis

Rent exploitation, when tenants are overcharged in rent relative to the value of the property in which they reside, is one way landlords contribute to high rent burdens in low-income neighborhoods. Building on new ways of measuring rent exploitations, the Equity Center…

The Virginia Evictors Catalog provides information about property owners, or their representatives, who have filed tenant evictions across the Commonwealth. It compiles and processes publicly available data from Virginia State District Courts to reflect the names of the…

Two graduate students in the University of Virginia’s School of Data Science were selected to join the Community Data Fellowship program, a collaboration between the School and the UVA Equity Center’s Democratization of Data Initiative.

The University of Virginia Equity Center has released its 2023 report on the well-being of Charlottesville and Albemarle County.

The Equity Center at the University of Virginia, in partnership with the Charlottesville Department of Human Services (DHS) and Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, released the latest version of the Stepping Stones Report, which provides updated, comprehensive data on…