In Milwaukee, a city of fewer than 105,000 renter households, landlords evict roughly 16,000 adults and children each year. That’s sixteen families evicted through the court system daily.
When I first crunched these numbers, I was shocked. Since publishing “Evicted,” I founded the Eviction Lab, which has built the nation’s first-ever national database of evictions, culling over 100 million records going back to 2000. You can learn more about the eviction crisis in your community at www.evictionlab.org.
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