Samantha Toet
Samantha grew up in Charlottesville and earned her bachelor's degree in social psychology research from UVA. She previously worked as a Solutions Engineer and Partnership Manager at RStudio, with a focus on open-source technology advocacy. She believes that everyone should be able to make informed, data-driven decisions regardless of their means, and is passionate about enabling her community with tools to support more equitable and accessible analytics. She currently serves as a Data Scientist at the Virginia Equity Center.
Sessions
Where do landlords engage in more eviction actions? What characteristics of renters or landlords increase the practice of serial filing? There is widespread interest in using administrative data -- information collected by government and agencies in the implementation of public programs -- to evaluate systems and promote most just outcomes. Working with the Civil Court Data Initiative of Legal Services Corporation, we use data collected from civil court records in Virginia to analyze the behavior of landlords. Expanding on our Virginia Evictors Catalog, we use data on court evictions to build additional data tools to support the work of legal and housing advocates and model key eviction outcomes to contribute to our understanding of landlord behavior.