Fifth & Forbes Eviction Risk: Elevated , Pittsburgh

The voucher gap is 30.6%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. At $1,671 a month, rents run 33% over what the rest of Pittsburgh commands.

The severe-burden share is 23%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. The dominant input is supply constraint at 8.1/10. around a third of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, lower than the Allegheny County average of 40.6%.

Running hot, court filing pressure reads 7.8/10. It sits 1.0 points above the Allegheny County average of 5.0. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 251 filings here across 7 tracked years.

The worst year on record was 2003, when 6.9% of renter households were served. 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.

In a typical year about 3.5% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #18,163 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

Social vulnerability reads 4.6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 1.4 points hotter.

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.