RREX coordinates structured alternatives to eviction across Raleigh and surrounding areas — connecting property owners, tenants, professionals, and institutions in a system designed to stabilize housing outcomes.
A growing but underreported issue quietly impacting neighborhoods across the Triangle. Many eviction situations are not caused by unwillingness to find solutions, but by a fundamental lack of coordination between parties who could otherwise resolve the situation.
2025-2026 Analysis | Wake County & Surrounding Areas
Annual Eviction Filings in Wake County
Filed Due to Non-Payment (Modeled)
Could Have Had Alternative Path (Est.)
Average Time Before Displacement
Eviction remains a persistent challenge across the Raleigh metropolitan area, affecting thousands of families annually while creating cascading impacts on neighborhoods, schools, and community stability.
This report examines the structural factors driving eviction filings, the breakdown in coordination between landlords, tenants, and service providers, and the pathways that structured intervention can provide.
Our analysis suggests that a significant percentage of eviction filings could be prevented or resolved through coordinated intervention — connecting parties to resources, alternative housing options, and structured exit strategies before displacement occurs.
Job loss, medical debt, unexpected expenses, and insufficient emergency savings create payment gaps that escalate quickly.
Title defects, ownership disputes, and heir property situations create confusion that leads to landlord-tenant displacement.
No one is coordinating between landlord, tenant, social services, and capital sources to find alternatives before eviction.
| Metric | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 (Est.) | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total Filings | 17,234 | 18,412 | 19,100 | ↑ Rising |
| Non-Payment | 7,250 | 7,733 | 8,050 | ↑ Rising |
| Lease Violation | 4,309 | 4,603 | 4,775 | → Stable |
| Owner Move-In | 2,585 | 2,762 | 2,865 | → Stable |
| Property Sale | 1,723 | 1,841 | 1,910 | ↑ Rising |
Note: Figures for 2025 are modeled estimates based on available data through Q3. Source: NC Courts, Wake County District Court Records (modeled).
Children displaced by eviction often change schools, affecting educational outcomes and community continuity.
Eviction records affect credit scores, limiting future housing options and employment opportunities.
Displacement often means losing proximity to established healthcare providers and community clinics.
High eviction areas experience increased vacancy, reduced property values, and declining neighborhood stability.
Families lose essential social connections — childcare support, cultural ties, and community bonds.
Emergency housing, food assistance, and support services strain when displacement occurs unnecessarily.
Many eviction situations have viable alternatives — but those alternatives fail to materialize due to a fundamental coordination gap. No single entity is positioned to connect landlords, tenants, service providers, and capital sources before eviction becomes inevitable.
Landlords struggle to reach tenants before filing. Tenants don't know what resources exist. Social services operate in isolation from the legal system.
Intervention typically happens too late. By the time legal action begins, relationships have deteriorated and viable alternatives have expired.
Emergency assistance exists but isn't connected to housing-specific solutions. Capital sources don't see early-stage situations.
RREX provides a coordination layer that connects all parties before eviction becomes inevitable. By bringing landlords, tenants, professionals, and capital sources into a structured system, viable alternatives can be identified and executed.
This is not a charity. This is not a government program. This is a structured coordination system designed to stabilize housing outcomes through professional intervention.
Organizations aligned with housing stability initiatives — including financial institutions, healthcare systems, educational institutions, and utilities — may find the Eviction & Housing Stability Initiative aligns with their community investment and social responsibility objectives.
Banks and lenders with REO portfolios and distressed loan exposure may support coordination efforts.
Hospitals and health systems addressing social determinants of health increasingly recognize housing stability as key.
Institutions with housing programs, community engagement requirements, and research interests in housing stability.
Companies with LIHEAP partnerships, arrearage management programs, and community assistance initiatives.
Research & Reporting Partnerships: Organizations seeking to understand and address housing instability in the Triangle region may support ongoing research, data collection, and reporting efforts through this initiative.
Where direct data was unavailable for 2025, figures were modeled using linear projections based on 2023-2024 trends. Estimated figures are clearly labeled as such. Eviction cause breakdowns are based on nationally validated studies applied to Wake County demographic and housing stock characteristics.
This report represents a preliminary analysis intended to establish baseline understanding. Comprehensive eviction research requires multi-year data collection, tenant and landlord surveys, and longitudinal tracking that extends beyond this initial publication. RREX commits to annual updates as data collection matures.
Suggested Citation:
Raleigh Real Estate Exchange. (2026). Raleigh Eviction & Housing Stability Report 2025-2026. Raleigh, NC: RREX Housing Intelligence.
The Eviction & Housing Stability Initiative connects to broader complex property situations that RREX coordinates through its unified framework.