# How do different policies correlate with the number of evictions over time? * **How do different national and local housing policies across Europe correlate with the number of evictions over time?** * For example, in January 2020, before Covid-19, **Spain** reached the number of more than 1 million evictions since the number started to rise in 2008 with the financial crisis, * Also in **Spain**, the news agency Europa Press keeps an updated database on evictions: * **Are there any similar data platforms focused on or devoted to evictions in other countries? Or any other ways to get official data on evictions during the last years?** * **If so, it would be very interesting to compare how different policies and changes in policies since --for instance-- the financial crisis of 2007-08 correlate with the number of evictions in several European countries.** * Because policies are not the only factor behind the number of evictions, one can also look at other data sources: * The chapter on the "European Index of Housnig Exclusion" of FEANTSA's 2020 Overview of Housing Exclusion in Europe has useful compilations of data about: * Housing costs and expenses, * housing quality and quality of life, * social factors worsening housing difficulties, * public housing policies; * and for close-ups about Greece, Spain, Denmark and Romania. * PDF, 4.5MB: * OECD's Affordable Housing Database: * Eurostat on housing: * *