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“We all have individually special kingdoms of success in each of us. Obedience is the throne of those kingdoms without which the real person we are is sure to suffer eviction.”
“Eviction is a cause, not just a condition, of poverty.”
“Often, evicted families also lose the opportunity to benefit from public housing because Housing Authorities count evictions and unpaid debt as strikes when reviewing applications. And so people wh...”
“For almost a century, there has been broad consensus in America that families should spend no more than 30 percent of their income on housing. Until recently, most renting families met this goal. B...”
“If incarceration had come to define the lives of men from impoverished black neighborhoods, eviction was shaping the lives of women. Poor black men were locked up. Poor black women were locked out.”
“When tenants relinquished protections by falling behind in rent or otherwise breaking their rental agreement, landlords could respondby neglecting repairs. Or as Sherrena put it to tenants: If I gi...”
“For many landlords, it was cheaper to deal with the expense of eviction than to maintain their properties; it was possible to skimp on maintenance if tenants were perpetually behind; and many poor ...”
“But this house felt strange. Dave asked what was going on, and John explained that the name on the eviction order belonged to the mother of several of the children. She had died two months earlier,...”
“Poor black families were immersed in a domestic web of a large number of kin and friends whom they [could] count on, wrote the anthropologist Carol Stack in All Our Kin. Those entwined in such a we...”
“It was an old tradition: landlords barring children from their properties. In the competitive postwar housing market of the late 1940s, landlords regularly turned away families with children and ev...”
“Our cities have become unaffordable to our poorest families, and this problem is leaving a deep and jagged scar on our next generation.”
“Poor black families were “immersed in a domestic web of a large number of kin and friends whom they [could] count on,” wrote the anthropologist Carol Stack in All Our Kin. Those entwined in such a ...”
