MHP’s Center for Housing Data released in December its latest Housing Stability Monitor that highlights eviction and foreclosure data and trends across the state’s cities and counties. Some of its key findings are below:
- For over two consecutive years, from August 2022 to September 2024, eviction filings have surpassed average pre-pandemic rates (greater than 2600 total filings per month).
- Hampden County leads the state in rates of eviction filings, with 26.4 filings per 1,000 renter households countywide; Springfield (31.3), Holyoke (30.8), and Chicopee (28.0) have the highest rates of filings within Hampden County.
- Pittsfield also has a notably elevated filing rate of 31.8 per 1,000 renter households.
- The beginning of this two-year period coincides with the August 2022 decision to reinstate the “Notice to Quit” requirement for RAFT applications.
Please be sure to check out the report here for more detail (find your city’s rate) and for additional information on foreclosures, along with a special report on growing homelessness amid elevated eviction filing rates and ongoing shelter capacity concerns.
There are clear and proven budget and policy responses that will help reverse this trend (e.g., remove the Notice to Quit requirement, access to counsel, rent control and more). We look forward to working with our legislative delegation in the new Legislative Session and FY26 budget to advance these policies.
