Study: Eviction Rates for Black Women on Par With Incarcerations for Black Men
MacArthur Foundation “How Housing Matters” (pdf) study reveals that while black men face alarmingly high incarceration rates, black women are disproportionately evicted from their homes.
According to the study, in any given year, approximately 16,000
adults and children are evicted in Milwaukee from approximately 6,000
housing units—that equates to 16 households evicted every day.
These startling statistics account only for court-ordered evictions
and do not even touch on coercive tactics like paying unwanted tenants
to vacate, housing condemnations and landlord foreclosures.
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