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Evicted

Poverty and Profit in the American City
Aug 18, 2017sunnyfeline rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This book is about poverty and how eviction is a big impact on people's lives as they struggle to find affordable housing. Very eye-opening and profoundly written with valid data to support it. The author shows how many landlords are taking advantage of this situation by demand of market and making their tenants pay more than what a place is really worth because they know the tenants will pay for it. The tenants have no other choice. Many of those landlords don't put much effort into maintaining their property so many of those tenants suffer with things like broken windows, leaky water, hole in wall, lead paint, etc. Many of them fall behind on the rent and the landlords use that against them by refusing to comply with the needed repairs. The cycle continues after they are evicted and the next (desperate) tenants move in... There are also loopholes such as the landlords claiming their property costs more than the voucher the tenant has so the government/tax payers end up covering for remain of those costs. That costs us millions of dollars and it could be avoided if rules were set in place. It's a vicious cycle that many people are unaware of and the author suggests that changes be made so the poor people are not forced to live in terrible places and be taken advantage of.