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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Dec 5.
Published in final edited form as: Hous Policy Debate. 2021 Jan 8;31(3-5):670–695. doi: 10.1080/10511482.2020.1847163

Table 2.

Neighborhood characteristics associated with logged court-based filings and Ellis Act petition rates in 2011–15: Spatial autoregressive models.

Court-based eviction filings
Ellis Act petitions
Direct effects
Indirect effects
Direct effects
Indirect effects
Coeff. Sig. SE Coeff. Sig. SE Coeff. Sig. SE Coeff. Sig. SE

Household income ($1,000s) 0.0037 ** 0.0037 0.0200 ** 0.0086 0.0012 0.0055 0.0102 0.0195
% Vacant 0.0260 *** 0.0260 − 0.0231 0.0258 0.0069 0.0138 0.1704 *** 0.0551
Median gross rent ($100s) 0.0271 *** 0.0271 0.0589 * 0.0344 − 0.0251 0.0232 − 0.2072 ** 0.0847
Median home value ($1,000s) − 0.0003 ** − 0.0003 − 0.0007 0.0006 0.0003 0.0004 − 0.0002 0.0012
% Renter-occupied units − 0.0005 − 0.0005 0.0221 *** 0.0059 − 0.0140 *** 0.0045 0.0058 0.0123
% Households with children 0.0043 * 0.0043 0.0043 0.0105 − 0.0095 0.0072 − 0.0054 * 0.0209
% Black 0.0094 *** 0.0094 0.0057 0.0078 0.0091 0.0080 0.0180 0.0153
% Hispanic − 0.0011 − 0.0011 − 0.0065 0.0079 0.0221 *** 0.0076 − 0.0234 0.0170
% Asian − 0.0041 − 0.0041 0.0065 0.0069 0.0041 0.0081 − 0.0085 0.0141
% with college degree or more − 0.0109 *** − 0.0109 − 0.0518 *** 0.0120 0.0219 ** 0.0091 0.0603 ** 0.0252
Poverty rate 0.0011 0.0011 0.0052 0.0121 0.0046 0.0079 − 0.0346 0.0270
Unemployment rate − 0.0068 − 0.0068 − 0.0245 0.0453 − 0.0168 0.0257 − 0.2106 ** 0.0890
% without high school diploma − 0.0010 − 0.0010 − 0.0654 *** 0.0204 0.0015 0.0142 0.1692 *** 0.0432
LIHTC units 0.0004 ** 0.0004 0.0035 *** 0.0009 0.0002 0.0006 − 0.0034 * 0.0021
Public housing units − 0.0004 − 0.0004 − 0.0035 ** 0.0016 − 0.0006 0.0008 0.0125 *** 0.0034
Housing Choice Vouchers 0.0004 0.0004 − 0.0032 * 0.0019 0.0004 0.0011 0.0005 0.0040
Newly constructed units 0.0065 *** 0.0065 − 0.0052 0.0084 0.0071 * 0.0041 − 0.0217 0.0189
No. observations 823 806
SAR error term 0.90 *** 0.05 0.49 *** 0.09
Pseudo R2 0.43 0.26

Note. OLS = ordinary least squares; LIHTC = Low-Income Housing Tax Credit; SE = standard error.

*

p < .1

**

p < .05

***

p < .01.