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It was once said that the poor are "constantly exposed to evidence of their own irrelevance". Especially for poor African American families- who live in neighborhoods with rates of violence and concentrated poverty so extreme that even the worst white neighborhoods bear little resemblance- living in degrading housing in dangerous neighborhoods sent a clear message about where the wider society thought they belonged.
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Aiyana Marie
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The distance between grinding poverty and even stable poverty could be so vast that those at the bottom had little hope of climbing out, even if they pinched every penny. So, they chose not to. Instead, they tried to survive in color, season the suffering with pleasure. They would get a little high or have a drink are due a bit of gambling or acquire a television. Or have a lobster dinner.
- Evicted, p. 219
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- Evicted, p. 219
Aiyana Marie
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"He believes that if police were contacted more often, that victims would have the tools to prevent fatal situations from occurring in the future." What the chief failed to realize or fail to reveal was that his department's own rules presented battered women with a devil's bargain: keep quiet and face abuse are call the police in face eviction.
- Evicted, p. 192
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- Evicted, p. 192
Aiyana Marie
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Like Emergency Assistance, this service was reserved more for the unlucky- those who have been laid off or mugged- than the chronically rent burdened. Community Advocates was able to offer this benefit to only 950 families each year. It took Milwaukee less than 6 weeks to evict that many families.
- Evicted, p. 112
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- Evicted, p. 112
Aiyana Marie
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If incarceration had come to define the lives of men from impoverished black neighborhoods, eviction was shaping the lives of women. Poor black men were locked up. Poor black women were locked out.
- Evicted, p. 98
— Nov 03, 2025 03:08PM
- Evicted, p. 98
Aiyana Marie
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tenants in arrears were barred from withholding or escrowing rent; and they tempted eviction if they filed a report with a building inspector. It was not that low income renters didn't know their rights. They just knew those rights would cost them.
- Evicted, p. 75
— Nov 03, 2025 06:15AM
- Evicted, p. 75
Aiyana Marie
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The faster Belinda could address clients' housing problems, the more clients she could take on-- Belinda charged each client $37 a month for her services. When she met Sherrena, Belinda had 230 clients.
(It's $8,510 a month for her to take advantage of poor and misplaced families needing homes)
- Evicted, p. 62
— Nov 03, 2025 06:14AM
(It's $8,510 a month for her to take advantage of poor and misplaced families needing homes)
- Evicted, p. 62
Aiyana Marie
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In larger cities like Washington, DC, the wait for public housing has counted in decades. In those cities, a mother of a young child who put her name on the list might be a grandmother by the timer application was reviewed.
- Evicted, p. 59
— Nov 03, 2025 06:14AM
- Evicted, p. 59
