U.S. News: Rhode Island's Eviction Rate Highest in New England

Rhode Island had the highest eviction rate among New England states in 2016, and Providence's rate nearly tripled Boston's.

April 16, 2018, at 2:14 p.m.

Rhode Island's Eviction Rate Highest in New England

Associated Press

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island had the highest eviction rate among New England states in 2016, and Providence's rate nearly tripled Boston's.

The Providence Journal reports new data from the Eviction Lab at Princeton University shows elevated eviction rates in the Ocean State. There were 5,069 evictions in Rhode Island in 2016 and 1,580 in its capital city.

The lab's principal investigator, Matthew Desmond, won a Pulitzer Prize in 2017 for his book, "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City," which argued eviction was a cause, not a consequence, of poverty in America.