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  "alt": "Line chart of the monthly filing index from 2020 to 2025. The index is near the baseline in January 2020, falls to its lowest value in April 2020, rises slowly through a shaded band for the federal moratoria, passes above the baseline in early 2022, peaks in March 2023 and then stays near or above the baseline with seasonal swings.",
  "caption": "The line sits at about the baseline in January 2020, drops to its minimum in April 2020, stays below the baseline through the federal moratoria and rises above it in February 2022. It plots the ratio of filings to the baseline for the {fact:fil_n_tracts} tracts in the panel; the shaded band marks the federal moratoria from the CARES Act in March 2020 to the Supreme Court ruling against the CDC order in August 2021.",
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  ],
  "id": "eviction_filing_index",
  "notes": [
    "The index is a ratio of sums: filings summed over the tract-months of the panel divided by the baseline summed over the same tract-months. 1 means filings equal the baseline for the same calendar month before the pandemic. Filings are landlord petitions, not completed evictions.",
    "The panel is the {fact:fil_n_tracts} tracts of {fact:fil_n_sites} sites that have a baseline and an observation in each of the {fact:fil_n_months} months. Atlanta and Other Oregon Counties have no baseline, and Greenville, South Carolina, has no tract observed in every month, so the three are left out; the file has {fact:fil_n_cities} sites in all. The months of 2026 are incomplete and are not shown.",
    "The band runs from March 2020 to August 2021. Federal protection was not continuous: the CARES Act moratorium ended in the summer of 2020 and the CDC order began in September 2020, and states and cities set their own rules. The counts are full counts of filings in the participating sites, so the line has no sampling interval."
  ],
  "source": "Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System, 2020-2025, balanced panel of tracts with a baseline; full counts of court filings, not weighted",
  "spec": {
    "annotations": [
      {
        "label": "Federal eviction moratoria",
        "type": "band",
        "x1": 2020.17,
        "x2": 2021.67
      },
      {
        "label": "Pre-pandemic baseline",
        "type": "y-rule",
        "y": 1
      },
      {
        "label": "April 2020",
        "type": "point",
        "x": 2020.25,
        "y": 0.087
      },
      {
        "label": "March 2023",
        "type": "point",
        "x": 2023.17,
        "y": 1.372
      }
    ],
    "x": "x",
    "xDomain": [
      2020,
      2026
    ],
    "xFormat": {
      "digits": 2
    },
    "xLabel": "Year (each point is the start of a month)",
    "xTicks": [
      {
        "label": "Jan 2020",
        "value": 2020
      },
      {
        "label": "Jan 2021",
        "value": 2021
      },
      {
        "label": "Jan 2022",
        "value": 2022
      },
      {
        "label": "Jan 2023",
        "value": 2023
      },
      {
        "label": "Jan 2024",
        "value": 2024
      },
      {
        "label": "Jan 2025",
        "value": 2025
      },
      {
        "label": "Jan 2026",
        "value": 2026
      }
    ],
    "y": "index",
    "yDomain": [
      0,
      1.6
    ],
    "yFormat": {
      "digits": 2
    },
    "yLabel": "Filings divided by the pre-pandemic baseline (1 = baseline)"
  },
  "subtitle": "Monthly eviction filings divided by the pre-pandemic baseline for the same calendar month, summed over tracts in cities and metro areas the Eviction Lab tracks, January 2020 to December 2025",
  "title": "Eviction filings fell to {fact:fil_trough} times their pre-pandemic level in April 2020, stayed below it until early 2022 and peaked at {fact:fil_peak} times that level in March 2023",
  "type": "line",
  "width": "wide"
}