Charity’s Reviews > Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City > Status Update

“The nicest building in Patrice’s life was Lena‘s Food Market….Her white friends called it the ghetto grocery, but it was one of the better markets on the North Side… she tried not to go to parts of the city where she did [feel her existence questioned]. Patrice lived four miles away from the shore of Lake Michigan: an hour on foot, a half hour by bus, fifteen minutes by car. She had never been.“

“In Milwaukee’s poorest, black neighborhoods, eviction had become commonplace – especially for women…1 female renter in 17 was evicted through the court system each year, which was twice as often as men from those neighborhoods and 9 times as often as women from the city’s poorest white areas. Women from black neighborhoods made up 9% of Milwaukee’s population and 30% of its evicted tenants.”