Elari’s Reviews > Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City > Status Update
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In fixating almost exclusively on what poor people and their communities lack—good jobs, a strong safety net, role models—we have neglected the critical ways that exploitation contributes to the persistence of poverty. We have overlooked a fact that landlords never have: there is a lot of money to be made off the poor. The ’hood is good.
— Oct 29, 2021 07:26PM
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The majority of poor families aren't so lucky, and their children are not getting enough food because the rent eats first.
— Oct 29, 2021 07:07PM
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A group of psychiatrists published a letter in Psychiatric Services, identifying eviction as a “significant precursor of suicide.” None of the patients were facing homelessness, leading the psychiatrists to attribute the suicides to eviction itself. “Eviction must be considered a traumatic rejection,” they wrote, “a denial of one’s most basic human needs, and an exquisitely shameful experience.”
— Oct 29, 2021 06:26PM
