Why Eviction Data Access Matters?
Data transparency, particularly eviction access matters to increasing awareness about critical housing issues and strengthening community’s response to said issues. Local courts are processing eviction cases Monday - Friday. Even in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and throughout an active evictions moratorium issued by the Center for Disease Control, eviction filings and case hearings have been active.
Access to eviction data is the first step to communicating the impact of evictions, increasing awareness, understanding, and exploring opportunities for collaborative approaches to prevention and intervention. Through increased eviction data access, unevictIA project aims to connect and strengthen the capacity of stakeholders in the public, non-profit, and private sectors to explore and act on opportunities to engage in eviction prevention. unevictIA project will develop a zip-code level Iowa eviction data dashboard that can be used to conduct responsive and targeted eviction prevention outreach while investigating opportunities for advocacy and systems level transformative change.
Why Eviction Data Access Matters?
Data transparency, particularly eviction access matters to increasing awareness about critical housing issues and strengthening community’s response to said issues. Local courts are processing eviction cases Monday - Friday. Even in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and throughout an active evictions moratorium issued by the Center for Disease Control, eviction filings and case hearings have been active.
Access to eviction data is the first step to communicating the impact of evictions, increasing awareness, understanding, and exploring opportunities for collaborative approaches to prevention and intervention. Through increased eviction data access, unevictIA project aims to connect and strengthen the capacity of stakeholders in the public, non-profit, and private sectors to explore and act on opportunities to engage in eviction prevention. unevictIA project will develop a zip-code level Iowa eviction data dashboard that can be used to conduct responsive and targeted eviction prevention outreach while investigating opportunities for advocacy and systems level transformative change.
Meet the unevictIA team
Amal is an urban planner and the founder of unevictIA. Her focus areas are affordable housing preservation, asset-based community development, and spatial and environmental justice. She was a HealthConnect Fellow with the Mid-Iowa Health Foundation (MIHF) from 2019 - 2021 and is currently a Housing Justice Fellow with the Polk County Housing Trust Fund. Amal is a PhD candidate in the Department of Geography, Planning, and International Development at the University of Amsterdam.
Amal Barre
Project Director
Hiba is a Sudanese Muslim artist based in Iowa studying Architecture with a minor in Urban Planning and Digital Media. Rooted in social justice and artivism, Hiba’s passions are driven by finding the intersection between planning, architecture and art and how those elements impact the environment and the human condition. She aims to co-create spaces that evoke emotion, that are centered around the positionality of self and challenges existing western approaches within her field. Her work is driven by storytelling and interdisciplinary approaches to expressing identity and self within the dynamic context of community. Hiba’s mission in creating spaces that are engaging, healing and present drives her work as an artist, researcher and future architect.
Hiba Salih
Architecture
Carissa is a senior at Drake University studying both studio art painting and environmental science sustainability and resilience. She has been the Sprout Community Learning Garden Coordinator and a Summer Studio Arts Education Intern. Carissa has a desire to use her knowledge of environmental studies along with her passion for art to activate conversations about the impact on social issues. She will be using art to assist in humanizing eviction data, making it accessible to all.
Carissa Dannen
Narrative Cartography
Kaleb is an interdisciplinary placemaker who seeks to challenge oppression with the commutative properties of artistic expression. He co-creates spaces for self-expression and works with artists to find creative solutions to strengthen the cultural foundations of communities. His mission as a cultural producer is centered in community enrichment, and as such he collaborates with artists from a wide range of disciplines as well as community members who do not identify as artists.