{"id":43831,"date":"2017-02-12T17:00:03","date_gmt":"2017-02-12T10:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/no-place-like-home-americas-eviction-epidemic\/"},"modified":"2017-02-12T17:01:20","modified_gmt":"2017-02-12T10:01:20","slug":"no-place-like-home-americas-eviction-epidemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/no-place-like-home-americas-eviction-epidemic\/","title":{"rendered":"No place like home: America\u2019s eviction epidemic"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nSoaring rents and low wages have hit the poorest families in the US hard. Harvard sociologist Matthew Desmond introduces an extract from his heartbreaking book about the crisis\u2022 Q&A with Matthew Desmond: \u2018It\u2019s a problem we need to hate more\u2019 Even in the most desolate areas of American cities, evictions used to be rare enough to draw crowds. Eviction riots erupted during the Depression, even though the number of poor families who faced eviction each year was a fraction of what it is today. A New York Times account of community resistance to the eviction of three Bronx families in February 1932 observed: \u201cProbably because of the cold, the crowd numbered only 1,000.\u201d Sometimes neighbours confronted the marshals directly, sitting on the evicted family\u2019s furniture to prevent its removal or moving the family back in despite the judge\u2019s orders. The marshals themselves were ambivalent about carrying out evictions. It wasn\u2019t why they carried a badge and a gun.These days, there are sheriff squads whose full-time job is to carry out eviction and foreclosure orders. There are moving companies specialising in evictions, their crews working all day, every weekday. There are hundreds of data-mining companies that sell landlords tenant-screening reports listing past evictions and court filings. These days, housing courts swell, forcing commissioners to settle cases in hallways or makeshift offices crammed with old desks and broken file cabinets \u2013 and most tenants don\u2019t even show up. Low-income families have grown used to the rumble of moving trucks, the early morning knocks at the door, the belongings lining the kerb. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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Soaring rents and low wages have hit the poorest families in the US hard. 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