A local work group has launched a survey to find out about Lawrence and Douglas County tenants’ experiences with security deposits, screening and applications, maintenance, nonrenewals of leases, evictions and more.
The survey is the work of LiveWell Douglas County’s Sexual Violence Prevention Work Group.
“My workgroup did a ton of research + advocacy for the recent source of income ordinance and in doing so we realized that there is a significant gap in data surrounding the experiences of tenants,” Gabby Boyle, a work group member and prevention specialist at the Sexual Trauma and Abuse Care Center, said via email.
Click here to take the tenant survey.
To fill in some of those gaps, the work group created a survey to collect experiential data about a variety of challenges facing Douglas County tenants, Boyle said.
All of the survey questions are voluntary and confidential, Boyle said. The survey is for people who are currently renting, people in the process of looking for rentals, and those who have rented in the last 24 months.
The group aims to get 1,050 responses while the survey is online through Aug. 31. Boyle said that number would make the results statistically meaningful.
“We’re hoping it can be a useful tool to guide conversations at the city and county level about increasing protections for renters,” they said.
The survey is live at bit.ly/DGCOtenantsurvey. It takes about 15 minutes to complete.
Paper copies are also available upon request, and people can contact Boyle at Gabby@stacarecenter.org to host an in-person survey distribution event.
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