2023 was the second-busiest year on record for eviction filings in Maricopa County.According to Maricopa County Justice Courts, Phoenix-area landlords filed 83,236 evictions last year – that's a 23% increase from the previous year. And it’s the highest number of eviction filings in the county since 2005.Evictions are increasing in many U.S. cities, said Adam Chapnik, research
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Last week, the Arizona Office of Economic Opportunity reported a record number of employed Arizonans. Yet evictions in the state’s largest county only continue to climb.Last month, Maricopa County saw the highest number of eviction filings since 2016 at almost 7,700.Adam Chapnik is a research specialist with the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. He says rent prices in