Matthew Desmond

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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.
Matthew Desmond
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.
Bill
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Bill
I once sat and listened to an hour of the local eviction court. It was horrifying.

The judge only had an hour to get through the list of today's cases, and there were a lot of them. Defendants could on…
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Book2Dragon
Spending a few days in court, I see where the facts are secondary and the person involved is silenced.
Hannah
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Hannah
Curious about data during the pandemic years? It only goes through 2018 on evictionlab
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
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