Washington Square Eviction Risk: High , Albany

What pushes it up most is economic stress at 10/10. 93% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby.

At $744 a month, rents run 39% under what the rest of Albany commands. The poverty rate is 40%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Food insecurity runs 37.9% against 17.8% nationally. Against Albany County at 42.1%, 55% of renters here are cost-burdened. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1/10.

Severe burden reaches 16%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Running hot, local political climate reads 8/10.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 21.1% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today.

On the national scale it lands near the 100th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 9.9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the NY average is 7.7, so this tract runs 2.2 points hotter.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.