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Publisher: MacArthur Foundation
Publication Date: 2014
Approximately 16 households are evicted in Milwaukee every day. Who are they, and what is driving these numbers? To answer that question, Matthew Desmond of Harvard University analyzed 29,960 eviction records, surveyed 251 people at eviction court, and followed 11 families through the course of their evictions. His analysis, published in the American Journal of Sociology, found that poor black women in Milwaukee are being evicted from their homes...
Publication Date: 2012
Combining statistical and ethnographic analyses, this article explores the prevalence and ramifications of eviction in the lives of the urban poor. A quantitative analysis of administrative and survey data finds that eviction is commonplace in inner-city black neighborhoods and that women from those neighborhoods are evicted at significantly higher rates than men. A qualitative analysis of ethnographic data based on fieldwork among evicted tenant...