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Without the ability to plant roots and invest in your community or your school - because you're paying 60, 70, 80 percent of your income to rent - and eviction becomes something of an inevitability to you, it denies you certain freedoms.

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The things you're closest to are often the things you know least about.

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Even growing up the way I did, I was shocked by the level of poverty I saw as a college student. I thought the best way to understand it was to get close to it on the ground level.

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Poor families are living above their means, in apartments they cannot afford. The thing is, those apartments are already at the bottom of the market.

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An eviction is an incredibly time consuming and stressful event.

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There are moving companies specializing in evictions, their crews working all day, every weekday.

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I come from a specific tradition of sociology, which is urban ethnography.

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African American women, and moms in particular, are evicted at disproportionately high rates.

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It's true that eviction affects the young and the old, the sick and the able-bodied. It affects white folks and black folks and Hispanic folks and immigrants. If you spend time in housing court, you see a really diverse array of folks there.

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When you meet people who are spending 70, 80 percent of their income on rent, eviction becomes much more of an inevitability than the result of personal irresponsibility.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Sociologist

Born: Unknown

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