They have instead largely focused their attentions on public housing and voucher programs, which help a tiny slice of the people in need. Government, policy officials and academics have not paid enough attention to evictions or to the private rental market until now.Having children will increase one’s likelihood by being evicted about as much as being 4 months’ late with the rent. Black women, particularly those with children, are heavily overrepresented in evictions.Survey responses can also underestimate evictions as tenants often don’t say they’ve been “evicted” unless they got a formal court order. Formal court statistics therefore significantly underestimate the prevalence of evictions. A lot of evictions are “informal” ones where the landlord has made the tenant leave without filing a formal eviction order.Evictions are extremely disruptive to people’s lives and they can end up losing everything as a result – jobs, possessions, even sometimes their children. While poverty can cause evictions, evictions also cause poverty.Numbers are similar in many other American cities. Between 20, more than 1 in 8 Milwaukee renters experienced a forced move.
Evictions used to be rare but are now pretty common in America.Expand the housing voucher program to cover all low-income families.Publicly fund legal services for low-income families in housing courts.
In 2015, Matthew Desmond was awarded the MacArthur “Genius” Grant for “revealing the impact of eviction on the lives of the urban poor and its role in perpetuating racial and economic inequality.” He is the principal investigator of The Eviction Lab at Princeton University, which creates data, interactive tools, and research to help neighbors and policymakers understand the eviction crisis. As a tie-in to last semester’s Community Read, check out Matthew Desmond’s article in The 1619 Project “In order to understand the brutality of American capitalism, you have to start at the plantation.” Join us in reading Evicted by purchasing a copy or borrowing one from your local library. Desmond, he will be joined in conversation with Dean Kelly Brown Douglas and available for an audience Q&A. Union students are invited to attend in person.įollowing a lecture by Dr. An RSVP is required to attend this virtual event. During Professor of Sociology at Princeton University for the Spring 2022 Community Read Lecture and Interview. Please join us on Thursday, March 10, at 6:00 pm EST, as we welcome Dr. This landmark work of scholarship and reportage takes us into the poorest neighborhoods of Milwaukee to tell the story of eight families on the edge. EDS at Union has selected the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond as our Spring 2022 Community Read.
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