ARE YOU A TENANT IN NEED OF SUPPORT?
Indianapolis has an average of 500 evictions every week.
This is what people in power have decided and accepted as normal.
However, removing people from their homes will never be normal.
This is what people in power have decided and accepted as normal.
However, removing people from their homes will never be normal.
The Polis Center, drawing on its expertise in research and data analysis, has created a user-friendly online tool to help people in Indiana understand evictions and their impact on communities.
In the United States, eviction is a legal process that landlords use to force tenants out of their rental homes. For tenants, eviction is more than just a legal process—it's a devastating experience with profound social and economic consequences.
Evictions are often seen as individual, personal failures. What I learned from teaching this class was that evictions are a societal and systemic failure, not an individual one. Our society does not provide the most basic conditions for people to survive and thrive.