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Saturday, April 14, 2018

First-Ever Evictions Database Shows: 'We're In the Middle Of A Housing Crisis'

For many poor families in America, eviction is a real and ongoing threat. Sociologist Matthew Desmond estimates that 2.3 million evictions were filed in the U.S. in 2016 — a rate of four every minute.

"Eviction isn't just a condition of poverty; it's a cause of poverty," Desmond says. "Eviction is a direct cause of homelessness, but it also is a cause of residential instability, school instability [and] community instability."

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11 comments:

Anonymous said...

Joey open your rooms .

Anonymous said...

Great article that tell the truth about housing.

Anonymous said...

"Eviction isn't just a condition of poverty; it's a cause of poverty," Desmond says

The cause of poverty is the failure to stay in school and become educated and learn some kind of marketable job skill.

Anonymous said...

The high cost of housing is worth protesting not the BS protests nowadays.

Anonymous said...

Pathetic that this is happening to legal Americans and illegals are getting all kinds of handouts.

Anonymous said...

Well if people gave up on the American Dream and quit pooping out off spring like it's some biblical right and had the means to begin with before they started families with there procreative instincts and no income or worldy sense. Natural selection is a Fascist Reality. If your impulses have messed up your life and that of your off spring. You maybe faithful but your base impulses and immediate corporal pleasures have little to do with the Republic or Democracy . Planned Parenthood should change their name to Planned Democracy. We do not need the proffers of the weak.Let them be stem cells that save the righteous.

Anonymous said...

This can't be correct.....idiots on here claim its only the City of Salisbury and it's all Mayor Day's fault!!!! This must mean he is the Mayor of AMERICA???? Congratulations Jake!!!

Anonymous said...

A beautiful business model: provide financing of money printed from thin air to people who can’t afford the interest payments, then in a couple of years take full possession of the real property!

Fantastic business if you can get it.

Worthless paper for real Land and homes!

Anonymous said...

Section 8 program should be evaluated every few years to make sure those that need help receive it. There is a lot of abuse. I have witnessed in the DC area that some people live in section 8 apartment program. They pay according to their income. One tentant who has lived in the apartment for years pays a little over 100.00 a month rent. However every morning gets into a new Mercedes. All social programs should be reviewed.

Anonymous said...

1:14 PM thats not true and a worn out ignorant comment.

Anonymous said...

It's hard for some people who have never fallen upon really bad times to appreciate what it's like for people who do. Not having enough money for rent can be the result of one or more of hundreds of possibilities, many of them outside of the control of the evicted person.