This webinar will explore key features and trends in city nuisance property ordinances in the United States. These ordinances require landlords to regulate the conduct of their tenants, sometimes through eviction, and often penalize them when they fail to do so. These laws can have a disproportionate effect on domestic violence survivors, who may have to call the police for help more often than others.

The Center for Public Health Law Research at Temple University’s Beasley School of Law has created a legal data set tracking nuisance property ordinances in effect from August 1, 2017 through August 1, 2019 in the 40 most populous U.S. cities. In this webinar, we will provide background information on the connection between these ordinances and domestic violence survivors. We will then introduce the methods and process used to create this data set, and discuss key features of the laws captured in the data set. Following the presentations, there will be time for questions from webinar attendees.