Researchers Are Using AI to Get a Clearer Picture of Housing in the U.S.

Shelterforce, July 2, 2025-Franklin Schneider
Max Griswold is putting together a database of detailed eviction data for cities and census tracts in California. Last year, after making a batch of public records requests and outreach to sheriffs’ offices across the state, he received a blizzard of eviction records. But the documents were in rough shape; many had sections redacted, and they were in different formats, which made it difficult to compare them to one another. There was also the sheer volume of them—Griswold was looking at over 6,000 pages of court records.
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