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Eviction affects the old and the young, the sick and able-bodied. But for poor women of color and their children, it has become ordinary. Walk into just about any urban housing court in America, and you can see them waiting on hard benches for their cases to be called. Among Milwaukee renters, over 1 in 5 black women report having been…
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Matthew Desmond • Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Imagine the private humiliation of changing your name, of accepting the unspoken yet undeniable fact that this intergenerational marker of who you are is publicly considered revolting. Imagine the betrayal: At enormous risk and expense, you or your parents had fled other places to spare yourself and your children this very same humiliation, but now
... See moreDara Horn • People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
The threat was backed up by dispossess notices, all designed to look like court orders although they were not, each couched in language more urgent and ominous than the last.
Robert A. Caro • The Power Broker
were known as “straw buyers”—might not exist, or might be victims of identity theft. Or they might be Sonny Kim’s partners in mortgage fraud. So might the brokers, appraisers, notaries, title agents, and ultimately the bankers who were in on the deals, some of them showing up again and again. Everyone was making money on Sonny Kim’s business, and t
... See moreGeorge Packer • The Unwinding
She peered at men in the grocery store and wondered if they were undercover cops who knew that she lived with the man who had started the Silk Road.