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Homelessness in the United States hit record high in 2024. Jennifer Ludden, NPR national correspondent covers housing and homelessness, and Peter Hepburn, associate director of Eviction Lab and an assistant professor of Sociology at Rutgers University-Newark, explain some of the factors of why the rates increased by double digits.

Homelessness in the United States hit record highs in 2024. On today's show: Jennifer Ludden, NPR national correspondent covering housing and homelessness, and Peter Hepburn, associate director of Eviction Lab and an assistant professor of Sociology at Rutgers University-Newark, explain some of the factors of why the rates increased by double digits.

There have been more than 23,000 evictions in Minnesota this year, according to the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. That's 40 percent higher than the average before 2020. And a new study by Minnesota researchers finds eviction rates for single family homes are higher for properties owned by large investors, especially private equity firms. And it finds rentals owned by private equity are concentrated in lower income neighborhoods. Anthony Damiano is a research associate at the University of Minnesota's Center for Urban and Regional Affairs and one of the authors of the study. He joined Minnesota Now to break down the study results.

There are more than 17 million renters in the rural Unites States. While popular perceptions of eviction may be that they are predominantly an urban issue, low-income rural renters face some unique challenges in finding and maintaining secure housing. Dr. Carl Gershenson shares insights from his extensive work on eviction, and in particular from the paper that he co-authored with Dr. Matthew Desmond, titled “Eviction and the Rental Housing Crisis in Rural America.” Carl Gershenson is Lab Director at The Eviction Lab at Princeton University. His research focuses on the causes and consequences of housing instability, with a special focus on how eviction leads to further economic and residential insecurity. 

Matthew Desmond is a professor of sociology at Princeton University and the principal investigator at The Eviction Lab, a research group that published the first-ever dataset of evictions in America, going back to 2000.  His Pulitzer-Prize-winner book Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City quickly made Desmond one of America's most important thinkers and activists. His new book, Poverty, By America, broadens the scope of his research, demonstrating how wealthy Americans keep poor people poor. On March 27, 2024, Matthew Desmond came to the Sydney Goldstein Theater in San Francisco for an on-stage conversation with Bernice Yeung, the managing editor of Berkeley Journalism's Investigative Reporting Program. Her first book, In a Day's Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America's Most Vulnerable Workers, was a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize.

WABE politics reporters Sam Gringlas and Rahul Bali return to “Closer Look,” to provide a recap of the bills that passed and the bills that failed during the 2024 legislative session. Plus, according to data from Georgia Tech, metro Atlanta reached nearly 8,000 eviction filings during December 2021. According to Zillow, at the end of 2021, rental prices skyrocketed nearly 20% in the Atlanta area. Peter Hepburn, an associate director at the Eviction Lab at Princeton University, discusses post-pandemic eviction filings. Lastly, tributes are pouring in for the legendary actor Louis Gossett Jr. He died on Friday at the age of 87. Gossett was the first Black man to win a supporting actor Oscar and an Emmy winner for his role in the seminal TV miniseries “Roots,” We revisit Rose's conversation with Gossett. During the conversation, he reflected on why he gave up a professional career in basketball to pursue acting full-time. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

VTDigger is re-releasing some of our favorite interviews of the past decade to mark the 10th anniversary of The Vermont Conversation. This episode with Matthew Desmond was originally published in April 2023.Why does the U.S. — the richest country in the world — have the most poverty of any advanced democracy? Why are homeless encampments popping up from Seattle to Burlington?The answer is that, knowingly or unknowingly, many of us benefit from keeping poor people poor.That is the argument made by Matthew Desmond in his bestselling new book, “Poverty, by America.” Desmond won the Pulitzer Prize for his 2016 book, “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City," which was named by Book Riot as one of the 50 best nonfiction books of the last century. He is a professor of sociology at Princeton University, a recipient of a MacArthur “genius” fellowship, and was named by Politico in 2016 as one of “fifty people across the country who are most influencing the national political debate.”He argues that regulations ranging from zoning to environmental laws are being used to block affordable housing, a key factor that is driving the homeless crisis. He says that this problem is often especially acute in communities known for their otherwise progressive politics. Low wages are kept low for the benefit of the more affluent.“In most residential land in America, it's illegal to build anything except a single detached family home,” Desmond told The Vermont Conversation. “That little regulation buried inside of our zoning codes really means that the only place poor families can live are neighborhoods of concentrated disadvantage, concentrated poverty, and that creates a level of disadvantage of a whole other order. I think that we need to think about our role and our complicity in maintaining those walls around our communities.”Desmond intends his work to be “a call to action. It means that we need to get our tails down to that zoning board meeting on a Thursday night at eight o'clock and stand up and say, Look, I refuse to be a segregationist. I refuse to deny other kids opportunities my kids receive living here. Let's build [affordable housing].”Matthew Desmond's work is grounded in his own experience growing up in poverty. He started studying housing, poverty, and eviction in 2008, when he lived among poor tenants and their landlords in Milwaukee. He now directs the Eviction Lab at Princeton, and is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, where “Poverty, By America” was recently excerpted.Desmond wants to inspire a new abolitionist movement. “Poverty abolitionists view poverty not as a minor social issue or an inevitability, but as an abomination,” he said. “It shares with other abolitionist movements — the movement to abolish slavery [and] prisons, for example — the recognition, the conviction, that if my gain comes at someone else's loss, that's corrupting in a way." "A poverty abolitionist divests from exploitation even if it benefits us. We try to shop and invest in solidarity with poor workers," he said. "We want a government that has a balanced and sensible welfare state, a government that does much more to fight poverty than to alleviate the tax burdens of the affluent. And we are for integrated communities and open, inclusive neighborhoods.”Poverty abolitionism “is a political mission,” said Desmond, “but it's also a per

According to the Eviction Lab, about 7.6 million Americans every year face the threat of eviction, and a disproportionate number of those threatened are Black women. This week, host Jonquilyn Hill sits down with New America senior writer and editor Julia Craven to discuss why this disparity exists and what policies could help end evictions for everybody. It's the first of a special series this month entitled “Black women and ...” that examines the ways policy particularly impacts Black women.  Read More: Eviction Is One Of The Biggest Health Risks Facing Black Children  Eviction Tracking System | Eviction Lab Evictions: a hidden scourge for black women - Washington Post TANF Policies Reflect Racist Legacy of Cash Assistance Evictions and Infant and Child Health Outcomes - PMC  Submit your policy questions! We want to know what you're curious about. Credits: Jonquilyn Hill, host Sofi LaLonde, producer Cristian Ayala, engineer A.M. Hall, editorial director of talk podcasts Want to support The Weeds? Please consider making a donation to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Original Air Date: 3/27/2021 - Today's guest is a Utah-based journalist from Washington DC, who reports on housing, eviction, and homeless from Princeton's Eviction Lab and Economic Hardship Recording project. Her work has been featured in the Washington Post, CNN, The Atlantic, Slate, and Harvard Business Review. AC23 is joined today by Aliza Durano as they discuss the eviction lab exhibit that is currently being featured in the gallery at the Arts Council and what brought about it's creation.

The United States is both the richest country on Earth, and yet beset with a crushing poverty that saddles too many Americans. Dr. Matthew Desmond is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and sociologist who says the reality of American poverty is sustained by those who benefit from it.    ​​Matthew Desmond is a professor of sociology at Princeton University and joined the Harvard Society of Fellows in 2010. He is the author of four books, including “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City,” which won the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, Carnegie Medal, and PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction. Desmond leads The Eviction Lab, focusing his research on poverty in America, city life, housing insecurity, public policy, racial inequality, and ethnography. He is the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award, and the William Julius Wilson Early Career Award. A contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, Desmond was listed in 2016 among the Politico 50, as one of “fifty people across the country who are most influencing the national political debate.” See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

“The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why?” That's the question that underscores Pulitzer Prize-winning sociologist Matthew Desmond's new book, “Poverty, by America.” America is a country that purports equality as one of its highest values. Economic opportunity and the long touted American dream have driven millions to emigrate and settle here for centuries. In reality, however, gross economic inequality undergirds every facet of American life: education, the criminal legal system, health care, and housing. Affordable housing is foundational to American life. Because America is rife with poverty, it's also rife with housing inequality. This is Desmond's focus of study. Desmond's work at Princeton University's “Eviction Lab” and his 2016 book, “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City,” continue to shape the conversation about housing and poverty today. His new book takes his exploration one step further, seeking to examine and address the roots and responses to housing insecurity and its threat to American life. Today, we are running a conversation between Desmond and the ACLU's Sandra Park, senior staff attorney for the Women's Rights Project, who also works on these issues. Together, they'll break down the complexities of American poverty and how poverty as a societal force threatens the accessibility of our civil rights and civil liberties.

The pandemic made monthly rent payments soar, rising 15 percent between 2020 and 2022.Evictions are also on the rise since the pandemic, with some cities seeing filings increases by as much as 50 percent, according to Princeton University's Eviction Lab. This has led some cities and states to consider rent regulations. This month, a group of economists sent a letter to the Biden Administration in support of national rent regulation. It's a sign of a possible shift in what historically has been one of the most agreed-upon topics among economists – probably ever. We discuss rent control and which regulations actually work. Want to support 1A? Give to your local public radio station and subscribe to this podcast. Have questions? Find out how to connect with us by visiting our website.

Today on Here's Where It Gets Interesting, Sharon is joined by Matthew Desmond, Professor of Sociology at Princeton University and the founding director of the Eviction Lab. Together, they discuss his best-selling book, “Poverty, By America,” and take a hard look at poverty in one of the richest countries in the world, while reimagining the debate on poverty. We all know that poverty is an existing problem in the United States, but what does that actually mean? How is the “poverty line” calculated, and why is there profound suffering in such close proximity to significant wealth? Special thanks to our guest, Matthew Desmond, for joining us today.Host/Executive Producer: Sharon McMahonGuest: Matthew DesmondAudio Producer: Jenny Snyder Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Yvette Borja interviews Juan Pablo Garnham of Princeton's Eviction Lab. They discussed how eviction impacts undocumented people, the ways that current eviction court data erases the real impact of eviction on migrant communities, and the regional variation in transparency around eviction court data. Listen to the #litreview unpacking Matthew Desmond's book "Eviction" here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lit-review-unlocked-eviction-is-a-women-of-color-issue/id1240386895?i=1000472093160 Become a #litreview patron and support the podcast here: https://patreon.com/radiocachimbonaFollow @radiocachimbona on Instagram, Twitter, and FacebookLearn more about Eviction Lab's work here: https://evictionlab.org/Share your eviction story here: https://evictionlab.org/desalojos/Contact Juan Pablo Garnham by emailing desalojos@evictionlab.org or via WhatsApp +1 (971) 401-2210

In this Real Estate News Brief for the week ending June 24th, 2023... what the Fed Chief is saying about another two rate hikes, where evictions are rising the most, and how the economy is impacting commercial real estate.   Hi, I'm Kathy Fettke and this is Real Estate News for Investors. If you like our podcast, please subscribe and leave us a review.   Economic News   We begin with economic news from this past week, and comments from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell about interest rates. He testified before Congress that U.S. inflation is still too high and that more rate hikes are likely this year. He told members of the House Financial Services Committee: “Nearly all FOMC participants expect that it will be appropriate to raise interest rates somewhat further by the end of the year.” But he also says that decisions will be made “meeting by meeting” so there's no timetable as to if or when this will happen. Most of the members are anticipating two more quarter point rate hikes. (1)   In a more positive light, Powell said that it's possible to get inflation under control without a huge increase in unemployment. During his testimony before the Senate Banking Committee, he said that he sees the labor market cooling gradually but doesn't expect to see significant job losses. (2)   Federal Reserve President Raphael Bostic is one of just two committee members who doesn't believe the Fed should hike rates again this year. He said in an interview that interest rates should remain where they are for the time being, and that rate cuts should not happen until later “next” year. He believes the economy hasn't yet felt the effects of previous rate cuts, and doesn't want the Fed to make the mistake of causing a significant economic downturn. (3)   The weekly unemployment report shows that initial claims are rising, although the number of applications was flat last week. The government says that 264,000 people requested benefits which is about the same as the previous two weeks. But, the last three weeks represent the highest level we've seen since late 2021. (4)   Builders are feeling bullish about new home construction. Housing starts for single-family homes surged in May to a new high point for the year. The National Association of Home Builders says housing starts were up 21.7% to an annual pace of 1.63 million. Economists were expecting a decline of .8%. (5) The association's monthly confidence index also reflects a feel-good attitude among builders. The index was up 5 points to 55 which puts it in positive territory. (6)   Meantime, the sale of existing homes rose a bit in May. Sales were up 3.8% to an annual rate of 1.08 million, but due to high mortgage rates, prices were down about 3%. It's the largest monthly drop in existing home prices since December of 2011. (7)   Mortgage Rates   Mortgage rates didn't move much this last week. Freddie Mac says the average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage was down 2 basis points to 6.67%. The 15-year was down 7 points to 6.03%. (8)   In other news making headlines…   Eviction Rates Are Rising in Some Cities   Rising rents and a lack of pandemic-era protections are pushing many renters into eviction proceedings. Princeton University's Eviction Lab tracks filings in almost three dozen cities and 10 states. It reports that eviction rates are now 50% higher than they were before the pandemic. (9)   Some of the hardest hit cities include Houston with rates that were 56% higher in April, Minneapolis/St. Paul with rates that were up 106% in March, 55% in April, and 63% in May. Nashville, Phoenix, and the state of Rhode Island are also seeing a lot of evictions.    Zillow reports that national rents are up 5% from a year ago, and almost 31% from 2019. High eviction rates right now are also due to the fact that many tenants were protected from being evicted during the pandemic.   Distress Starting to Hit Commercial Real Estate   We're beginning to see more distress in the commercial real estate market. A report from MSCI Real Assets shows about $64 billion in distress for the first quarter, and a total of about $155 billion in assets that are now at risk. (10)   Retail properties are suffering the most with about $23 billion in distress. But those problems began “before” the pandemic as stores lost business to online shopping websites. Office properties are now seeing about $18 billion in distress thanks to the rise in remote work, and leases that need to be renewed at high interest rates. Multi-families are also seeing some amount of distress. Delinquency rates for multifamily loans from major investment groups hit the 3% level at the end of the first quarter.    That's it for today. Check the show notes for links at newsforinvestors.com. And please remember to hit the subscribe button, and leave a review!   I also encourage you to join RealWealth at newsforinvestors.com. It's free to join and will give you access to information about how you can build wealth with single-family rentals. Membership will also connect you to our experienced investment counselors, property teams, lenders, 1031 exchange facilitators, attorneys, CPAs and more.   Thanks for listening. I'm Kathy Fettke.   Links:   1 - https://www.marketwatch.com/story/powell-tells-congress-to-expect-higher-interest-rates-5ee9ffc0?mod=federal-reserve   2 - https://www.marketwatch.com/story/powell-says-he-sees-path-where-inflation-cools-without-significant-job-losses-d132327a?mod=mw_latestnews   3 - https://www.marketwatch.com/amp/story/fed-should-leave-interest-rates-unchanged-for-the-rest-of-the-year-bostic-says-43d83606   4 - https://www.marketwatch.com/story/jobless-claims-hit-highest-level-since-late-2021-2650a966   5 - https://www.marketwatch.com/story/housing-starts-surge-as-builders-rev-up-single-family-home-construction-in-may-while-a-housing-shortage-drags-on-fe6838ea?mod=economic-report   6 - https://www.marketwatch.com/story/home-builders-turn-bullish-for-the-first-time-in-nearly-a-year-amid-strong-housing-demand-81f5c7b9?mod=economic-report   7 - https://www.marketwatch.com/story/u-s-existing-home-prices-suffer-largest-drop-since-december-2011-56fe5258?mod=u.s.-economic-calendar   8 - https://www.freddiemac.com/pmms   9 - https://apnews.com/article/evictions-homelessness-affordable-housing-landlords-rental-assistance-dc4a03864011334538f82d2f404d2afb   10 - https://www.bisnow.com/national/news/capital-markets/report-distressed-cre-now-tops-64b-119503

There's an eviction crisis in the United States. The cost of housing is increasing way faster than wages. To dive into the issue of eviction I spoke with Juan Pablo Garnham from The Eviction Lab, which works with Princeton University and aims to create data, interactive tools, and research to help neighbors and policymakers understand the eviction crisis.Check out more from The Eviction Lab here:https://evictionlab.org/How to support the show!Pure Spectrum CBD: Promo code AnxietyPod for 15% off!https://www.purespectrumcbd.com/ref/552/Buy Me a Coffee:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/givesmeanxietyInstacart:Instacart.oloiyb.net/AnxietyThe Cardist - anxiety pod 10%https://thecardiststudio.com/Check out the show on all of your favorite social platforms!https://twitter.com/GivesanxietyPodhttps://www.facebook.com/thatgivesmeanxietypodcasthttps://www.instagram.com/thatgivesmeanxietypodcast/https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgCOITNlRi_K7JP9QxBK-vQSupport the show

Why does the U.S. — the richest country in the world — have the most poverty of any advanced democracy? Why are homeless encampments popping up from Seattle to Burlington?The answer is that, knowingly or unknowingly, many of us benefit from keeping poor people poor.That is the argument made by Matthew Desmond in his bestselling new book, “Poverty, by America.” Desmond won the Pulitzer Prize for his 2016 book, “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City," which was named by Book Riot as one of the 50 best nonfiction books of the last century. He is a professor of sociology at Princeton University, a recipient of a MacArthur “genius” fellowship, and was named by Politico in 2016 as one of “fifty people across the country who are most influencing the national political debate.”He argues that regulations ranging from zoning to environmental laws are being used to block affordable housing, a key factor that is driving the homeless crisis. He says that this problem is often especially acute in communities known for their otherwise progressive politics. Low wages are kept low for the benefit of the more affluent.“In most residential land in America, it's illegal to build anything except a single detached family home,” Desmond told The Vermont Conversation. “That little regulation buried inside of our zoning codes really means that the only place poor families can live are neighborhoods of concentrated disadvantage, concentrated poverty, and that creates a level of disadvantage of a whole other order. I think that we need to think about our role and our complicity in maintaining those walls around our communities.”Desmond intends his work to be “a call to action. It means that we need to get our tails down to that zoning board meeting on a Thursday night at eight o'clock and stand up and say, Look, I refuse to be a segregationist. I refuse to deny other kids opportunities my kids receive living here. Let's build [affordable housing].”Matthew Desmond's work is grounded in his own experience growing up in poverty. He started studying housing, poverty, and eviction in 2008, when he lived among poor tenants and their landlords in Milwaukee. He now directs the Eviction Lab at Princeton, and is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, where “Poverty, By America” was recently excerpted.Desmond wants to inspire a new abolitionist movement. “Poverty abolitionists view poverty not as a minor social issue or an inevitability, but as an abomination,” he said. “It shares with other abolitionist movements -- the movement to abolish slavery [and] prisons, for example -- the recognition, the conviction, that if my gain comes at someone else's loss, that's corrupting in a way." "A poverty abolitionist divests from exploitation even if it benefits us. We try to shop and invest in solidarity with poor workers," he said. "We want a government that has a balanced and sensible welfare state, a government that does much more to fight poverty than to alleviate the tax burdens of the affluent. And we are for integrated communities and open, inclusive neighborhoods.”Poverty abolitionism “is a political mission,” said Desmond, “but it's also a personal stance.”

This is an excerpt from the episode "Imagining A Land Without Poverty: With Matthew Desmond."Michael Steele is joined by Matthew Desmond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City," and Professor of Sociology and the Director of the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Matthew discusses his new book, “Poverty, By America," which looks at why America hasn't made more progress in ending poverty, how the pandemic reframed eviction and government response to poverty and how wealthy and middle class Americans perpetuate a system that keeps poor people poor.If you enjoyed this podcast, be sure to leave a review or tell a friend!Check out the book here:https://www.amazon.com/Poverty-America-Matthew-Desmond/dp/0593239911Join the movement to end poverty: https://endpovertyusa.org/Follow Matthew Desmond @just_shelterFollow Michael @MichaelSteeleFollow the Podcast @steele_podcast

My next guest is a Professor of Sociology and principal investigator at Princeton University's Eviction Lab. His subsequent book ‘Evicted' won a Pulitzer Prize and a Carnegie Medal, as well as a string of other awards. Matthew Desmond is here to discuss new book 'Poverty, by America'.

Why is America stricken by poverty despite being the most prosperous democracy in the world? Michael Steele is joined by Matthew Desmond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City," and Professor of Sociology and the Director of the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Matthew discusses his new book, “Poverty, By America," which looks at why America hasn't made more progress in ending poverty, how the pandemic reframed eviction and government response to poverty and how wealthy and middle class Americans perpetuate a system that keeps poor people poor. If you enjoyed this podcast, be sure to leave a review or tell a friend!Check out the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Poverty-America-Matthew-Desmond/dp/0593239911Join the movement to end poverty: https://endpovertyusa.org/Follow Matthew Desmond @just_shelterFollow Michael @MichaelSteeleFollow the Podcast @steele_podcast

The statistics on poverty in the U.S. are shocking and shameful: one in 9 Americans lives in poverty and one in 18 lives in “deep” poverty, defined in 2020 as annual income below roughly $13,000 for a family of four. More than a million public schoolchildren are homeless; more than 2 million Americans live in homes without running water or toilets. In his new book, "Poverty, by America", Matthew Desmond, who won a Pulitzer for his searing book on eviction, strives to figure out why there is so much poverty in the richest nation in the world — and what can be done to eliminate it. The responsibility, he writes, is all of ours: beyond policies and political movements, “it will also require that each of us, in our own way, become poverty abolitionists, unwinding ourselves from our neighbors' deprivation and refusing to live as unwitting enemies of the poor.” Desmond joins Forum to tell us how. Related link: The Eviction Lab Guests: Matthew Desmond, professor of sociology and director of The Eviction Lab, Princeton University; author, "Poverty, by America," and Pulitzer Prize winner "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City"

The number of families evicted from their homes in suburbs across the country has been on the rise for years, according to a report from Princeton University's Eviction Lab. USA TODAY Breaking News Reporter Claire Thornton (long-time listeners will recognize her voice as a former host of 5 Things) joins Host James Brown to talk about what's behind the increase.Show notes:Suburban tenants are facing more evictions than ever, study showsClaire Thornton on TwitterJames Brown on TwitterIf you like the show, write us a review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you're listening. And do me a favor, share it with a friend. What do you think of this show? Email me at jabrown@usatoday.com or leave me a message at 585-484-0339. We might have you on the show.Episode Transcript available hereAlso available at art19.com/shows/5-ThingsSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The trouble for Rolland Carroll started last fall. That's when the 61-year-old said his apartment complex in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, informed him that his federal housing aid for his one-bedroom apartment had been reduced months ago. He owed more than $2,000 in back rent. “I was in shock,” Carroll said. “Like, how the heck could I owe this amount of money without you guys saying something months ago?” Carroll doesn't own a car and works odd jobs through a local temp agency. He struggled to pay the back rent and come up with $339 for his portion of the monthly rent. “November and December – there had been hardly any work at all. So I was in a real bind,” he said. A few days after Christmas, his apartment complex filed to evict him. Carroll said he was worried because local shelters were full and he has many chronic health issues that cost money. “I'm diabetic. I have arthritis. I have asthma. I'm just a total mess,” he said. With the help of nonprofit Iowa Legal Aid, Carroll successfully got the case dismissed at his hearing in mid-January because his apartment failed to give him sufficient notice. Now, he said he's still struggling to pay rent and his apartment continues to send him notices threatening to file another eviction. It's taking a toll on his health. “I've been so darn stressed out,” Carroll said. “My mental health is really poor at the moment.” Eviction as a health issue With the end of pandemic-era housing support like eviction moratoriums and federal rental assistance, many Midwesterners face housing insecurity. Eviction filings in Iowa have been increasing for the past decade. After a short dip in 2020 and 2021, they hit a record high of more than 18,000 in 2022, according to Iowa Legal Aid data. The eviction moratorium issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ended in mid-2021. And Iowa – like most states – ended its federally-funded emergency rent and utility program last year. “Rent makes up a huge portion of the household expenses,” said Nick Graetz, a postdoctoral research associate with Princeton University's Eviction Lab. “And it's just been spiking at unprecedented rates during the pandemic. But rents have been outpacing wages for decades.” Since March 2020, the average rent for a one-bedroom apartment has increased 13% percent in Iowa, nearly 18% percent in Missouri and more than 26% percent in Indiana, according to the U.S. News and World Report. Eviction filings are trending upward in Indiana and Missouri, too. Facing eviction can take a huge toll on someone's health, Graetz said. “The result is that people go from paying 60% of their income on rent to 70% of their income on rent, and sort of just have to absorb that cost by forgoing things like preventative health care, facing higher food insecurity, you know, things like that,” he said. According to a literature review published in the journal Social Science and Medicine, studies have tied eviction to depression, anxiety, high blood pressure and child maltreatment. A 2021 study published in the journal Pediatrics found women in Georgia who faced eviction during pregnancies were more likely to have children with lower birth weights. Chronic health issues or a health emergency can also put a renter at higher risk for eviction. “It's hard when you're trying to navigate something like that, “Graetz said. “Maybe [you] fall behind on rent, and then you can quickly get into this space where it becomes really difficult to avoid an eviction filing.” Possible legislative help Federal and state lawmakers have proposed a variety of policy solutions to combat evictions, including new tenant protections and expanding emergency rental assistance programs. Iowa lawmakers have allocated more than $300 million for tax credits to incentivize developers to build affordable housing. Minnesota lawmakers are considering a rent voucher program that could help 220,000 households. However, it's often unclear which policies are most effective, said Katie Moran-McCabe, the lead law and policy analyst at Temple University's Center for Public Health Law Research. “We often don't see those laws being evaluated,” she said. “So is the law working? Is it doing what it's intended to do? Are there any unintended consequences?” Nonprofit programs step up One growing solution has been eviction diversion programs, like the eviction diversion help desk program run by Iowa Legal Aid. The nonprofit launched the program in spring 2020, which placed an eviction help desk in the courthouse of Polk County, Iowa's most populous county. Similar programs exist in Illinois and Missouri. The rapid rise in requests for eviction assistance compelled the Iowa Legal Aid to reshuffle its priorities, executive director Nick Smithberg said. “Basically, it's structurally changed our organization,” he said. “Where historically housing work was about a quarter of our caseload, it's risen to half.” Since 2020, the program expanded to five other county courthouses. Smithberg said he would like to see it in more. “I think that we're going to see a very, very disturbing time in the history of this state,” he said. “It's just an all-time record. I don't think people have seen the effects of something like this for a sustained period of time. And I think that it's going to be very eye-opening for a lot of folks when you start seeing people out on the streets.” Eviction is a civil proceeding, which means defendants are not constitutionally guaranteed the right to an attorney the way they are when facing criminal charges. In the Midwest, only a handful of cities in Ohio, Missouri and Minnesota legally guarantee renters facing eviction a right to an attorney. Most renters fighting evictions – who are disproportionately women, people of color and those with disabilities – rely on programs, like Iowa Legal Aid, if they're available. Jon Biderman, an attorney with Iowa Legal Aid who helps run the eviction help desk at the Linn County courthouse in eastern Iowa, said his job is often to work out a deal with landlords so renters can have more time to come up with a plan. He wants to help tenants avoid adding an eviction to their record, which can make finding housing much more difficult. “Homelessness – being put out – is such a crisis for a person that if you're able to prevent that, or even buy them a week, that can really make a difference in a person's life,” he said. Other programs like the Health and Human Rights Clinic at Indiana University's Robert H. McKinney School of Law have also shifted their priorities away from other health care-related cases, like access to insurance and affordable prescription drugs, to focus more on housing. “Originally we did mostly access-to-health care type work,” said Fran Quigley, a clinical professor at IU, who directs the clinic. “But during the pandemic, the most critical need we saw in our community was responding to housing.” Quigley said it's going to take much more than eviction diversion programs like his to tackle this growing public health crisis. He said he'd like to see major policy changes, like stronger tenant protection laws and much more funding behind federal housing vouchers, to keep people in their homes. “We, as a nation, make a mistake of treating housing as a commodity and not a right,” he said. This story comes from a collaboration between Side Effects Public Media, based at WFYI, and the Midwest Newsroom — an investigative journalism collaboration including IPR, KCUR 89.3, Nebraska Public Media News, St. Louis Public Radio and NPR.

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Listed rents are up 15% nationwide, and as much as 30% in some cities. At the same time, inflation and rising interest rates are pricing many buyers out of the housing market — increasing the pressure to rent. NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports that competition is so intense, some people find themselves in bidding wars. The red-hot rental market could mean that more people face the threat of eviction at a time when most pandemic-era protections have disappeared. Carl Gershenson, Project Director of the Eviction Lab at Princeton University, explains how being evicted makes it all the more harder to find a new place to live. In participating regions, you'll also hear a local news segment to help you make sense of what's going on in your community.Email us at considerthis@npr.org.

Philadelphia is taking a novel approach to lowering its high rate of evictions, especially among Black renters. It's a pandemic-era program that requires landlords and tenants on the verge of an eviction filing to sit down and come to an agreement before ever entering a courtroom. So far, most landlords and tenants in the city have been happy with the results. Guests: Axios Philadelphia reporter Taylor Allen and Carl Gershenson, project director at The Eviction Lab. Credits: "Axios Today" is brought to you by Axios. This episode was produced by Nuria Marquez Martinez and edited by Alexandra Botti. Alex Suguira is our sound engineer. Special thanks to editor-in-chief Sara Kehaulani Goo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week's guest on the Public Health Out Loud podcast is an expert on housing instability, the eviction crisis, and related impacts on health outcomes. Dr. Gracie Himmelstein is a resident in internal medicine at the University of California Los Angeles with a PhD in demography from Princeton University. She has also conducted research with The Eviction Lab at Princeton University, which creates data, interactive tools, and research to help neighbors and policymakers understand the eviction crisis. Co-hosts Dr. Jim McDonald and Dr. Philip Chan talk about how COVID-19 shed light on housing instability, and what Rhode Island is doing to address it. They also ask Dr. Himmelstein about long-term solutions to promote housing stability in Rhode Island and nationwide.  Download this week's episode to learn more.  

Warnings about an “eviction tsunami” have yet to materialize. Extended moratoriums and rental assistance programs have delayed evictions in some areas, some housing experts had predicted 40 million evictions last fall. As reported by the news blog, fivethirtyeight.com, those experts are “still waiting.”Hi, I'm Kathy Fettke and this is Real Estate News for Investors. If you like our podcast, please subscribe and leave us a review.Some renter protections are still in place or just now expiring in some states and jurisdictions, so an eviction surge could be looming in those areas. But housing experts had expected a U.S. eviction tsunami in September, after the national eviction moratorium was lifted. Although there's been an increase in evictions, it hasn't resulted in a tsunami, so far.Evictions at Low LevelsThe fivethirtyeight article cites information from a website called “Eviction Lab” which tracks eviction data that's been made public. That data doesn't cover the entire nation, but it shows that, as of October of last year, evictions in most parts of the country were 40% lower than an historical average, and have not returned to pre-pandemic levels.So what's going on? It's difficult to know for sure, but there are various theories. Some housing experts think that some renters are still enjoying the benefits of the stimulus payments, extended unemployment insurance, and rental assistance programs, along with the moratoriums. There's also a theory that many “mom-and-pop landlords” have worked out deals with renters to avoid evictions. And there are some who feel that the eviction data just hasn't been very accurate. The fivethirtyeight authors believe it's probably a combination of those three, but there is no nationwide database to track that data. They say as many as one-third of U.S. counties don't publish an annual report on the number of evictions that make their way through courts. And then there are the so-called “informal evictions,” which are not tracked at all. That happens when landlords refuse to make repairs or abruptly change the locks on rental units. The blog suggests that informal evictions could be five times more common than the formal ones.Predictions Were Likely ExaggeratedDespite the lack of solid figures for the current status of U.S. evictions, the warning about a tsunami of 40 million evictions was very likely exaggerated, by a lot. That figure was largely based on something called the U.S. Census Bureau's Household Pulse Survey which asks Americans how confident they are in paying their rent, on a weekly basis. And then week-after-week, between 25 and 33% didn't think they'd make rent.That survey was used by the Aspen Institute and the COVID-19 Eviction Defense Project to come up with projections about how many households were at risk. The figure was between 12.6 million and 17.3 million households or 30 to 40 million renters. That made for some big headlines and the passage of legislation for almost $50 billion dollars in rent assistance.The government hand-out probably protected a lot of renters. But as the fivethirtyeight blog points out, the legislation was probably “based on an overestimate” that was determined by renter confidence levels, and not facts. The Aspen researchers included responses from people with no confidence, a slight amount of confidence, and a moderate amount of confidence in being able to pay rent. Plus, they included not just the people who were already behind on the rent, but those who were up to date and just feeling worried.As the blog points out, while a third of the renters said they were not feeling very confident about paying rent, only 13.9 percent were both low on confidence AND behind on their rent. So how many renters were truly at risk? Fivethirtyeight calculated that number at 6 million households and 14 million renters. That's less than half of what Aspen had predicted, at the low end.The Aspen research grabbed the most headlines, but there were other estimates that came out a lot lower. The Urban Institute crunched the numbers from the Census Bureau's Household Pulse Survey but only included people who were already behind on their rent. That report determined that 10 million renters were at risk of eviction. The National Multifamily Housing Council estimates were also showing lower numbers, although that organization only covers multi-family.Single-Family EcosphereBut the single-family ecosphere also fared well. We were reporting on how well our affiliates were doing with rent collection during the pandemic. Our affiliate in Jacksonville, who renovates and manages a large number of single-family rentals, says he hasn't noticed a big surge in evictions. He attributes that to Florida's landlord and business-friendly environment.He says: “Since the outbreak of Covid, we have remained in one of the strongest rental markets I have experienced in 25 years as a professional landlord. Businesses, families, homeowners, and renters are moving to Florida because of these fundamentals which allows our state and real estate markets to continue to grow both on the equity and rental side of the business.”You can read more about this topic by following the links in the show notes at newsforinvestors.com.You can also join RealWealth, for free, to learn more about residential real estate investing in landlord and business-friendly markets. As a member, you have access to the Investor Portal where you can view sample property pro-formas and connect with our network of resources. That includes experienced investment counselors, property teams, lenders, 1031 exchange facilitators, attorneys, CPAs and more.And please remember to hit the subscribe button, and leave a review!Thanks for listening. I'm Kathy Fettke. Links:1 - https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-happened-to-the-eviction-tsunami/

In Evicted, Matthew Desmond follows eight Milwaukee families as they struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Evicted transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving one of 21st-century America's most devastating problems. Its unforgettable scenes of hope and loss remind us of the centrality of home, without which nothing else is possible. While this one was published in 2016, it had 76K ratings on Goodreads and 9.5K reviews at the time of our recording and it's still remarkably relevant. Here's what the real friends had to say about Evicted in one sentence: Courtney: WE *clap*NEED*clap*TO*clap*Do*clap*Better MP: I'm going to steal Courtney's favorite word because this was very much heart wrenching Erks: FIIIIIIX THIS SHIT!!!!!! And last but not least, don't forget to check out the eviction data in your area, thanks to The Eviction Lab at Princeton University! Read along with us next time: 10/26/21: The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle 11/9/21: Rebecca 11/23/21: The Body is Not an Apology Check us out on Instagram @RealFriends_Pod !

Last week, the federal government, in a limited way, extended the eviction moratorium in place since the start of the pandemic. It's a temporary solution to a long-looming crisis — a crisis we explored in our series "The Scarlet E: Unmasking America's Eviction Crisis" back in 2019. In this excerpt from that series, we catalog the long line of thefts and schemes — most of which were perfectly legal at the time — that led to where we are today: a system, purpose-built, that extracts what it can, turning black and brown renters into debtors and evictees.  Matthew Desmond [@just_shelter], founder of The Eviction Lab and our partner in this series, and Marty Wegbreit, director of litigation for the Central Virginia Legal Aid Society, point us toward the legal and historical developments that evolved into the present crisis. And WBEZ's Natalie Moore [@natalieymoore], whose grandparents moved to Chicago during the Great Migration, shows us around a high-eviction area on Chicago's South Side.  

A federal moratorium on evictions during the pandemic has been extended after protests by left-wing members of Congress. As homelessness grows more visible, the pandemic has spawned rare momentum and funds to tackle the problem. Can it be fixed?Peter Hepburn of Princeton's Eviction Lab assesses the impact of the moratorium. We go back to the 1980s when homelessness first became a cause célèbre. And Jason Elliott, aide to California's governor, outlines the state's ambitious plans to house homeless people. Jon Fasman hosts with Idrees Kahloon and Aryn Braun.For access to The Economist's print, digital and audio editions subscribe: economist.com/USpod See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A federal moratorium on evictions during the pandemic has been extended after protests by left-wing members of Congress. As homelessness grows more visible, the pandemic has spawned rare momentum and funds to tackle the problem. Can it be fixed?Peter Hepburn of Princeton's Eviction Lab assesses the impact of the moratorium. We go back to the 1980s when homelessness first became a cause célèbre. And Jason Elliott, aide to California's governor, outlines the state's ambitious plans to house homeless people. Jon Fasman hosts with Idrees Kahloon and Aryn Braun.For access to The Economist's print, digital and audio editions subscribe: economist.com/USpod  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Norfolk, Newport News and Hampton have some of the highest eviction rates in the country, according to Princeton University's Eviction Lab.

Millions of people are evicted from their homes every year in America and the COVID-19 pandemic has only made the situation worse. While poverty in America has been studied extensively, much less is known about evictions. In the last 20 years, the Eviction Lab at Princeton University has gathered records on more than 80 million evictions. Matt Desmond, who created the Eviction Lab and authored the Pulitzer Prize winning book “Evicted,” was interviewed on an earlier episode of “Our American States.” To discuss how the eviction crisis has grown during the pandemic, we invited Emily Benfer on the podcast. Benfer, a visiting professor of law at Wake Forest University and an expert on housing and health law, is the co-creator of the COVID-19 Housing Policy Scorecard with the Eviction Lab and principal investigator in a study of nationwide COVID-19 eviction moratoriums and housing policies. She also chairs the American Bar Association's COVID-19 Task Force Committee on Eviction. Benfer explains how the pandemic has exacerbated the eviction problem, who is being evicted and how the recently extended federal eviction moratorium factors into the situation. She also explains the role state policymakers can play in implementing state eviction moratoriums and how some legal procedures can help people facing eviction. Resources The American Eviction Crisis, Explained, The Appeal Approaches to Eviction Protection Eviction, Health Inequity, and the Spread of COVID-19: Housing Policy as a Primary Pandemic Mitigation Strategy, Journal of Urban Health  OAS Episode 127 Transcription

In this episode, expert Peter Hepburn goes over the Eviction Lab created at Princeton University, explaining the details of how they can keep track of evictions in real time as they are happening nationwide--something the federal government does not have. This episode also reveals the disparities of housing, jobs, and living wages in the Central Valley presented by UC Merced Professor Dr. Edward Orozco Flores.

On this edition of Your Call, we’re discussing the looming eviction crisis in the US. According to the Eviction Lab’s Tracking System , more than 155,000 landlords have filed evictions during the pandemic.

12/9/20 Script (Projected record Time 55 min)Intro Music JingleThis is Lee Honish DIGITAL MARKETING AND CONTENT SPECIALIST, and you are listening to the “EVERY HOMES REAL ESTATE TREND BROADCAST”(Transition banter to lead into Lee’s Intro Monologue)Intro Monologue: Welcome to the EVERY HOME REAL ESTATE TRENDS BROADCAST. I am again Lee Honish and as always, I am with BROKER/OWNER David Bartels, you can always follow him on @DAVIDBARTELS and we have a covid eviction news & huge NAR update today. (Talk a little bit about what is going to be on the show today) but first…COMMERCIAL READLIST YOUR HOME online, for one low set fee!Experience The Everhome Way and discover the benefits, risk free.Explore Everhome’s easy to use listing service risk free and begin your journey to sell your home like a REALTOR. Get the benefits of massive exposure, full service representation for critical elements of negotiations, legal forms, escrow and title for a low set fee, that saves you thousands.Visit everhome.io that WWW dot E V E R H O M E dot I OThat’s everhome for every home(Transition banter to bring David into the conversation and lead into topic 1)(5 min) News #1 “Redfin CEO says the booming Covid housing market can get even hotter”Kevin Stankiewicz CNBCThe hot housing market during the coronavirus pandemic could heat up further if more homes are put up for sale, the CEO of real estate brokerage Redfin told CNBC on Monday.“If we see people get more comfortable letting others into their home, we’re going to see more inventory on the market, and that’s what will drive sales volume,” Glenn Kelman said on “Closing Bell.” “Today, we are definitely inventory-constrained. There aren’t enough homes for people to buy.”Home sales have been a point of economic strength despite the significant damage caused by the pandemic, driven in part by the increased geographic flexibility of remote work.“Every week I think it can’t get crazier, it gets crazier,” Kelman said of the housing market. Still, he acknowledged the heat cannot be sustained infinitely. Mortgage rates are below 3%. That can’t last forever, but we think it can last through 2021,” he said. “We know, though, this is a cyclical business. There’s going to be a bust if there’s a boom,” Kelman added. “It’s just a matter of when. We don’t think it will happen soon.”“What’s driving this boom is true demand, that people want to live elsewhere. There’s less speculation. There’s less predatory lending. This isn’t just a finance-fueled boom,” Kelman said. “It is driven by a true change in consumer behavior, where people want to go to Montana or, at least, Sacramento or Tucson rather than living in the major urban centers.”(10 min) News #2 News 3 (2 articles) “The Looming eviction Crisis” CBS News"It's catastrophic," said Matthew Desmond, a sociology professor at Princeton University. These days, he is also is principal investigator of the university's Eviction Lab. "Let's put ourselves in the shoes of a family who gets evicted. We lose our neighborhood. Our kid loses their school. Often we lose all our things, our possessions, because they're piled on the sidewalk or taken by movers.""What the pandemic has done is made that situation much worse," Desmond said. "Ten million people have lost their jobs. Rents have continued. And we're seeing millions of people really at the threat of eviction during a time where your home is the best medicine. Your home is what can prevent you from getting sick."COVID has already had a devastating economic impact: One in four American households has experienced job loss or diminished income.Desmond said, "If you take that one situation, imagining that one family, and multiply it by millions, the country will be in a lot of pain if we don't address this crisis."Early last September, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, citing increased health risks from eviction during the COVID pandemic, issued an eviction moratorium through December 31 for people who can't make their rent. While protecting some, perhaps even most, renters from eviction, it still requires the payment of all that back rent on January 1, and provides no rent relief.The order averted a wave of evictions, but it's a band-aid.News #3 NPR Mary Kelly Maureen Pao “'These Are Deaths That Could Have Been Prevented,' Says Researcher Studying Evictions”Like much of the response to the coronavirus across the United States, the approach to housing during the pandemic has been an uneven patchwork.Forty-three states and Washington, D.C., put in eviction moratoriums starting in March and April, but 27 of them ended in the spring and summer. Then in September, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ordered a national stop to evictions.The CDC eviction ban isn't automatic and doesn't cover everyone. Thousands of people are still being kicked out of their homes.Still, the federal order has been protecting many — and it is set to expire at the end of December.Now, a newly published study makes the case that evictions are tied to an increase in coronavirus cases and deaths. The research, which has not yet been peer reviewed, compared numbers in the 27 states where state-level moratoriums ended with the 17 that have kept them in place.After controlling for factors such as stay-at-home orders, school closures and mask mandates, the researchers estimated that the lifting of moratoriums could have resulted in between 365,200 and 502,200 excess coronavirus cases and between 8,900 and 12,500 excess deaths — an average of 433,700 cases and 10,700 deaths."I think whenever you see numbers like 430,000 cases, 10,000 deaths, it's surprising and it's troubling, and these are deaths that could have been prevented had the states maintained their moratoriums," says one of the study's lead researchers, Kathryn Leifheit of UCLA's Fielding School of Public Health.The CDC moratorium is set to expire at the end of the year. That's four weeks away and it's in the setting of over a million new COVID cases a week. So state and federal policymakers need to extend these protections to make sure that families and their communities can stay safe. Individuals have a bit of a role in this, too. Tenants can understand their protections under the CDC moratorium, help their neighbors understand theirs, and then reach out for legal aid.COMMERCIAL READLIST YOUR HOME online, for one low set fee!Experience The Everhome Way and discover the benefits, risk free.Explore Everhome’s easy to use listing service risk free and begin your journey to sell your home like a REALTOR. 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Below is a condensed summary of proposed changes.Public display of buyer broker compensation“…[The] amount of compensation offered to buyers' agents for each MLS listing will be made publicly available. Publicly accessible MLS data feeds will include offers of compensation, and buyers' agents will have an affirmative obligation to provide such information to their clients for homes of interest.”Consumer access to all properties that fit their criteria“…MLSs and brokerages, as always, must provide consumers all properties that fit their criteria regardless of compensation offered or the name of the listing brokerage.”Forbidding buyers’ agents from representing services as “free”“While NAR has long encouraged buyers' agents to explain how they expect to be paid, typically through offers of cooperative compensation from sellers' agents, there will be a rule that more definitively states that buyers' agents cannot represent that their services are free to clients.”Lockboxes and licensed agents“[With] the seller's prior approval, a licensed real estate agent will have access to the lockboxes of properties listed on an MLS even if the agent does not subscribe to the MLS.”What Happens NextFrom 11/19/2020, NAR and the DOJ will have 45 days to agree on exact rule changes. The NAR Board of Directors and DOJ will both have to approve the new rules. Per NAR, the “Court overseeing the settlement must formally approve the agreement, at which point [NAR anticipates] that the new rules will take effect.”CRMLS plans to fully comply with the terms of this government-mandated agreement, once finalized.(5 min) Real Estate Investor Segment “Two Ways To Overcome The Challenge Of Financing Investment Real Estate During The Pandemic” Ellie Perlman Forbes.com Councils MemberMany lenders are being careful and more conservative when it comes to lending money for multifamily properties due to the uncertainty in the market brought on by the pandemic. Hence, they may be taking steps to protect themselves from the potential greater risks involved. For one thing, I’ve seen many lenders lowering their loan to value (LTV) threshold. Prior to the pandemic, LTV might be anywhere from 7% to 80%. Currently, it’s more likely to be in the 65% to 75% range. 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As we continue through the COVID pandemic, an estimated 30 to 40 million people in the U.S. are currently at risk for eviction. Is this preventable? How can legal professionals help, and what larger changes need to happen to stop people from losing their homes? Here to answer some of those questions is Professor Emily Benfer, a law professor at Wake Forest University where she is the founding director of the Law Health Justice Clinic. Professor Benfer is also chair of the ABA's COVID-19 Task Force Committee on Eviction and co-creator of the COVID-19 Housing Policy Scoreboard with the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Learn why the U.S. faces an enormous wave of evictions after 2020, and how legal professionals everywhere can help those threatened by it. Read full transcript

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This week, we are once again hearing from our friends from Advancing Voices Of Women or AVOW, for a civil conversation about eviction. According to Eviction Lab, Fort Wayne ranked thirteenth in the nation for evictions and that was before the COVID-19 pandemic. With the economic fallout that has come with the coronavirus, the United States faces an eviction and homelessness crisis. We’ll learn about the laws that govern landlord and tenant actions. AVOW assembled a panel for a conversation outside at Barr Street Market. Panelists include: Kelly Lundberg, Director, Office of Housing and Neighborhood Services Andrew Thomas, staff attorney, Indiana Legal Services Jeff Vaughan, real estate professional and local landlord Special thanks to AVOW founders Patti Hays, Rachel Tobin-Smith, Marilyn Moran-Townsend and Faith Van Gilder for organizing this event, and special thanks to Luke Holliger for providing audio for this program. Our music is by Mark Waldick, Noah Campodonico, and Kurt Roembke. Our web producer is Loyal Vandenburg. Our production assistants are Monica Blankenship, Steve Mullaney, and Sydney Wagner.

In this episode, your hosts are joined by Professor Emily Benfer to discuss the eviction crisis caused by COVID-19. Emily, a co-creator of Eviction Lab's Housing Policy Scorecard, explains the circumstances that led to 30-40 million people being at risk of eviction, the downstream societal costs of housing instability, and how health, housing, and racial justice are deeply involved. We take a look at how this moment has uncovered disparity in America and provides an opportunity to reset the US's policy trajectory toward justice. Plus, Sarah and Laura celebrate the show's three-year anniversary, and get to see each other in person for the first time in five months! You can find Emily on Twitter at @emilyabenfer. Subscribe to the show and give us a five-star review wherever you listen, follow on Twitter at@HousingPodcast, and send us a note to podcast@nacced.org. Thanks for listening!

Millions of Americans face loss of benefits and eviction, threatening to push the US into a deepening recession, after Congress failed to extend the Cares Act. Ed Butler speaks to Maryland resident Sifu about her eviction by an aggressive landlord, while Alieza Durana of the Eviction Lab at Princeton University explains the broader impact of the lapsing legislation on tenants throughout the country. Michael Strain of the American Enterprise Institute think tank gives his free-market take on the effectiveness of the Cares Act and President Trump’s intervention to keep some level of benefits going. Plus Moody's chief economist Mark Zandi says the political deadlock in Washington risks economic depression. (Picture: Banners against eviction in Washington DC; Credit: Eric Baradat/AFP via Getty Images)

With the federal eviction moratorium having expired on July 24, no stimulus deal reached, and Trump's memorandum on housing being little more than a list of suggestions for federal agencies, millions of Americans are at very real risk of losing their housing situation in the near future.So in this video I go over 11 tips that renters can take to avoid eviction when they struggle to pay rent.EVICTION LAB COVID-19 RESOURCES: https://evictionlab.org/covid-policy-...43% OF RENTERS FACING EVICTION: https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/07/econom...NEW YORK RENT RELIEF PROGRAM: https://hcr.ny.gov/RRPNEWS ON CALIFORNIA EVICTION BAN: https://www.ocregister.com/2020/07/29...2 FREE STOCKS: http://go.moneydoneright.com/WebullIN CASE YOU MISSED IT:- Video on Trump's Unemployment ($400/Week) Memorandum: https://youtu.be/uEcd1V-DMg4- Video on Trump's Payroll Tax Deferral Memorandum: https://youtu.be/39WNoif30nk- Video on Trump's Eviction Executive Order: https://youtu.be/ScrkEe2OivUDISCLAIMER: I am not an attorney and nothing in this video should be taken as legal advice.  If you are facing eviction, seek qualified legal counsel in your local area who is aware with the specific landlord-tenant laws that apply to you and your specific situation.

An early pandemic fear was that people would be unable to pay rent and that it would lead to a surge in homelessness. Lawmakers intervened, creating municipal, state-level and federal eviction moratoriums — but many of them have now expired, including the federal moratorium put in place by the CARES Act. Dan discusses the looming housing crisis and where it factors into current stimulus negotiations with Alieza Durana of the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Eviction Lab resource: https://justshelter.org/community-resources/ Abby Volin founded Opening Doors, which advocates for tenants with pet-related housing issues and helps housing providers manage pets on properties. She is a nationally recognized expert on animal accommodation law and frequently holds lectures for landlords, attorneys, animal welfare advocates, and healthcare providers. Prior to starting Opening Doors, Abby worked as a policy specialist at The Humane Society of the United States and began her career as a litigator. Abby earned her JD from Loyola University Chicago School of Law and BA from Tufts University. She has volunteered with numerous shelters and rescue groups throughout the years and fostered countless pets (much to the chagrin of the resident cats). Abby joins Mandy to discuss the coming eviction crisis from the COVID-19 fallout.

More than 25 million Americans have been receiving expanded federal unemployment benefits — $600 a week. Those benefits disappear in days.Congress is unlikely to agree on new package before the end of next week. And temporary moratoriums on evictions are coming to an end in many places around the country. NPR's Noel King spoke with Matt Desmond, founder of Princeton University's Eviction Lab, about what could happen if Congress doesn't provide more help, and why so many American families were already in trouble before the pandemic.Find and support your local public radio station.Email us at considerthis@npr.org.

More than 25 million Americans have been receiving expanded federal unemployment benefits — $600 a week. Those benefits disappear in days.Congress is unlikely to agree on new package before the end of next week. And temporary moratoriums on evictions are coming to an end in many places around the country. NPR's Noel King spoke with Matt Desmond, founder of Princeton University's Eviction Lab, about what could happen if Congress doesn't provide more help, and why so many American families were already in trouble before the pandemic.Find and support your local public radio station.Email us at considerthis@npr.org.

Welcome back to PSA Thursday, a mostly-weekly segment in which we talk about how to handle money, work, and life in the middle of a pandemic. This week, our focus is on answering a question that many landlords in our community have asked in recent months: what do we do when our tenants can't pay the rent, and our bills are due?  To answer this, we asked Alieza Durana, a journalist who works with the Eviction Lab at Princeton University, for her expertise.  The Princeton Eviction Lab is a group that rigorously researches the causes and consequences of the affordable housing crisis, housing instability, and the impact of evictions. Alieza shares data gathered from The Eviction Lab and offers tips for landlords who want to be part of the solution, but struggle with the reality of having their own bills to pay.   For more information, visit the show notes at https://affordanything.com/psathursday

Home is in your heart and in your head, but mostly home is on land — acreage parceled out, clawed at, stolen, denied for decades and decades. First, there was Field Order No. 15, the Union Army’s plan to distribute 40-acre plots to the newly emancipated. That was a promise broken almost immediately. Later, there was the Great Migration, in which millions of African Americans fled north, where governments, lenders, and white neighbors would never let them own their land and build their own wealth. And now a system, purpose-built, extracts what it can, turning black and brown renters into debtors and evictees.  In this excerpt from our series, The Scarlet E: Unmasking America’s Eviction Crisis, we catalog the thefts and the schemes — most of which were perfectly legal — and we ask how long this debt will fester. Matthew Desmond, founder of The Eviction Lab and our partner in this series, and Marty Wegbreit, director of litigation for the Central Virginia Legal Aid Society, point us toward the legal and historical developments that evolved into the present crisis. And WBEZ’s Natalie Moore, whose grandparents moved to Chicago during the Great Migration, shows us around a high-eviction area on Chicago’s South Side.  

The beginning of the month means the rent is due. But what if you lost your job during the COVID-19 pandemic? This hour, we talk to a housing advocate about what protections exist for Connecticut residents who can’t afford housing costs right now. And we learn about the lasting consequences for residents who are at risk for eviction if the state and federal governments don’t provide additional protections. Later, we listen back to a conversation with Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning book Evicted started a national conversation about America’s eviction crisis. How do evictions disrupt --  not just families -- but entire communities? GUESTS: Greg Kirschner - Legal director of the Connecticut Fair Housing Center Matthew Desmond - Professor of Sociology at Princeton University and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. He is the principal investigator at the Eviction Lab at Princeton Erin Kemple – Executive Director of the Connecticut Fair Housing Center Milagros Ortiz - Tenant at the Clay Arsenal Renaissance Apartments in Hartford, CT Support the show.

Good morning, RVA! It’s 45 °F, and highs today are back up in the 70s. There’s a small chance for storms this afternoon and lows tonight could get down near freezing. Keep an eye on both things if you plan on heading outside or have a garden (respectively).Water coolerAs of this morning, the Virginia Department of Health reports 8,990 positive cases of the coronavirus in the Commonwealth, and 300 people in Virginia have died as a result of the virus. VDH reports 1,165 cases in and around Richmond (Chesterfield: 331, Henrico: 598, and Richmond: 236). Yesterday’s data update marked the third consecutive day with fewer new reported positive cases of coronavirus (562, 484, 453), but, as has been the pattern in Virginia, it’s also the third consecutive day with fewer new reported tests (2,934; 2,802; 2,002). As I wrote about yesterday, this means the Commonwealth’s “test-positivity rate” has increased (that’s bad). So what is anyone doing about this? Well, Mel Leonor, Ali Rockett, and Bridget Balch at the Richmond Times-Dispatch say that the Governor announced “the creation of a work group that will focus on improving COVID-19 testing in Virginia.” This seems like a good idea, although, perhaps, a couple weeks late. We’ll have to wait and see how quickly this new workgroup can impact the number of tests being report in the Commonwealth, but, dang, do they have a lot of work to do. For context, Virginia will need to administer about 13,000 tests per day to hit the numbers recommend by that NYT piece from a couple days ago.On the federal side of things, Trump released “Opening Up America Again,” a set of guidelines that “will help state and local officials when reopening their economies, getting people back to work, and continuing to protect American lives.” Part of the necessary criteria—before you even get to the reopening phase of things—is to have either a “downward trajectory of documented cases within a 14-day period” or a “downward trajectory of positive tests as a percent of total tests within a 14-day period (flat or increasing volume of tests).” I’m not sure why that’s an “or”, but Virginia currently has a three-day downward trend of the former and a one-day upward trend of the latter. Anyway, I still don’t see Virginia “opening up,” whatever that means, before the state’s ability to procure, process, and whatever else needs to happen for tests goes way, way up. One of my favorite blogs, The Weekly Sift has the best explanation of Trump’s guidelines and how, despite whatever he says out loud, almost no states will meet his own criteria anytime soon.In Richmond, both the City Council and School Board met yesterday to talk through changes to their budgets. I only caught part of Council’s meeting—as homeschooling intervened—but it sounds like the Mayor’s proposed budget adjustments were submitted as proper amendments. You can listen to the whole meeting here. Also, Council announced that they’ll cancel tomorrow’s scheduled amendment session. That leaves even fewer chances for the public to weigh in on this year’s budget. In fact, the first of two public hearings on the budget will take place this coming Monday. Better get your thoughts in order, I guess. As for School Board, I’m not sure what exactly happened at their meeting, but Samuel Northrop at the RTD says “The board will meet again Thursday to continue budget discussions ahead of the anticipated May 18 adoption date.”Eviction Lab—the group started by Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City—has released state-level COVID-19 housing policy scorecards. Virginia gets less than one star!—0.78 out of 5 total. While we’ve shut down most of the court processes that lead to evictions and halted utility disconnections, there’s still a lot of policy we could enact to keep people in their homes during this time of crisis.Ned Oliver at the Virginia Mercury has an update on the how the coronavirus has impacted the state’s prison system. Scary, and something to keep an eye on.I missed this from last week, but RVA Bike Share has temporarily closed until further notice! Our bike share system still lacks the volume of stations necessary for it to function as an important and viable part of the transportation network like you’d see in Washington D.C., Minneapolis, or New York City. So this probably was the right and safest call. If this bums you out, though, consider picking up a cheap, used bike to roll around the neighborhood on.This morning’s patron longreadPrepare for the Ultimate GaslightingSubmitted by Patron Susan. This dark take on what the slow slide into a post-coronavirus future will look like resonated with me.Billions of dollars will be spent on advertising, messaging, and television and media content to make you feel comfortable again. It will come in the traditional forms — a billboard here, a hundred commercials there — and in new-media forms: a 2020–2021 generation of memes to remind you that what you want again is normalcy. In truth, you want the feeling of normalcy, and we all want it. We want desperately to feel good again, to get back to the routines of life, to not lie in bed at night wondering how we’re going to afford our rent and bills, to not wake to an endless scroll of human tragedy on our phones, to have a cup of perfectly brewed coffee and simply leave the house for work. The need for comfort will be real, and it will be strong. And every brand in America will come to your rescue, dear consumer, to help take away that darkness and get life back to the way it was before the crisis. I urge you to be well aware of what is coming.If you’d like your longread to show up here, go chip in a couple bucks on the ol’ Patreon.

Evictions are high in Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, and South Bend; all three are among the top 20 cities in the US for evictions. The Princeton research collaborative "The Eviction Lab" has concluded that evictions are a cause, rather than a condition of poverty. "All IN" host Matt Pelsor speaks with a researcher from "The Eviction Lab," as well as local advocates for those facing eviction.

Atlanta has one of the highest eviction rates in the country. According to Apartment List , the city ranks third in the nation — with a nearly 6% rise in evictions between 2015 and 2017. Earlier this month, On Second Thought spoke with Brooke Gladston e about a reporting series NPR's On The Media created with the Eviction Lab at Princeton. Our conversation on the series called, "The Scarlet E: Unmasking America's Eviction Crisis" garnered a lot of feedback from listeners so we decided to do a follow up, while getting a landlord's perspective.

Atlanta has one of the highest eviction rates in the country. According to Apartment List , the city ranks third in the nation — with a nearly 6% rise in evictions between 2015 and 2017. Earlier this month, On Second Thought spoke with Brooke Gladston e about a reporting series NPR's On The Media created with the Eviction Lab at Princeton. Our conversation on the series called, "The Scarlet E: Unmasking America's Eviction Crisis" garnered a lot of feedback from listeners so we decided to do a follow up, while getting a landlord's perspective.

President Trump claims to have struck a deal with Mexico to settle a dispute of his own making. On this week’s On the Media, a look at the lives of the people who stand to suffer most. Plus, how the path to America’s eviction crisis begins, in part, with the Great Migration.  1. Bob Moore [@BobMooreNews], freelance reporter based in El Paso, on the human reality at the border amidst the latest Trumpian mendacity. Listen. 2. We continue our four-part series on eviction by charting the persistent line between racist housing policies, localized profiteering and the devastating plunder of generations of wealth. Guests include Matt Desmond [@just_shelter], founder of the Eviction Lab; Natalie Moore [@natalieymoore], reporter for WBEZ; and Marty Wegbreit, director of litigation for the Central Virginia Legal Aid Society. Listen.

Construction cranes poke through the skyline across metro Atlanta. It's a testament to growth and efforts to draw new companies and residents to call the region home. Not so visible are the millions of Americans being thrown out of their homes. It's a problem throughout the country. The Eviction Lab at Princeton University found nearly 2.3 million evictions were filed in the U.S. in 2016. NPR's On The Media partnered with The Eviction Lab for a four-part series called The Scarlet E: Unmasking America's Eviction Crisis.

Millions of rent-burdened Americans face eviction filings and proceedings every year. On this week’s On the Media, what we think we know, and what we definitely don’t know, about America’s eviction crisis. Plus, how local journalists failed the Central Park Five.  1. Jim Dwyer [@jimdwyernyt], columnist for The New York Times, on his experience reporting on the Central Park Five trial.  2. We hear the story of Jeffrey, a security guard in Richmond, Virginia whose severe rent burden caused his family to be evicted.  3. Matthew Desmond [@just_shelter], founder of the Eviction Lab, explains what he and his fellow researchers have learned from their massive collection of eviction data. 

The mythology of the 1950s American suburb—mom, dad, white picket fence, two-car garage, two-point-five kids—doesn’t align with the reality of who lives in suburbs today. Suburbs are bustling with multigenerational families, immigrants, and multiracial residents who defy the Stepford stereotype. While it’s true that after WWII, the federal government heavily invested in the creation of middle-class suburban havens for nuclear families—slashing funding for downtowns and forcing de facto segregation through redlining and community covenants—in the decades since, the suburbs have become more diverse than ever. With affordable housing currently in crisis, climate change ascendant, evictions on the rise, and a flood of people abandoning the suburbs for rapidly gentrifying cities, can this pocket of the American dream evolve? For solutions to the present-day problems of suburbs, Amanda Kolson Hurley, senior editor at CityLab, looks to the suburbs hidden throughout American history that did something a little different: forgotten places where utopian planning, communal living, socially conscious design, and integrated housing flourished.Go beyond the episode:Amanda Kolson Hurley’s Radical Suburbs: Experimental Living on the Fringes of the American CityMatthew Desmond’s Eviction Lab chronicles one aspect of the housing crisis whose solution might be informed by the model of the Greenbelt suburb, built with renters in mind“How the Suburbs Gave Birth to America's Most Diverse Neighborhoods” in CityLabRead Tracy Jan’s analysis for The Washington Post, “Redlining was banned 50 years ago. It’s still hurting minorities today.”An April study found that low-income residents in Washington, D.C., are being pushed out of the city at some of the highest rates in the countryRead about how some tenant organizers in Washington, D.C., are using rent strikes to combat eviction and gentrificationVisit Old Economy Village, where the Harmonists lived, or Six Moon Hill, now on the National Register of Historic Places, where a home recently sold for a cool $1.5 millionTune in every week to catch interviews with the liveliest voices from literature, the arts, sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek. Follow us on Twitter @TheAmScho or on Facebook.Subscribe: iTunes • Feedburner • Stitcher • 

The mythology of the 1950s American suburb—mom, dad, white picket fence, two-car garage, two-point-five kids—doesn’t align with the reality of who lives in suburbs today. Suburbs are bustling with multigenerational families, immigrants, and multiracial residents who defy the Stepford stereotype. While it’s true that after WWII, the federal government heavily invested in the creation of middle-class suburban havens for nuclear families—slashing funding for downtowns and forcing de facto segregation through redlining and community covenants—in the decades since, the suburbs have become more diverse than ever. With affordable housing currently in crisis, climate change ascendant, evictions on the rise, and a flood of people abandoning the suburbs for rapidly gentrifying cities, can this pocket of the American dream evolve? For solutions to the present-day problems of suburbs, Amanda Kolson Hurley, senior editor at CityLab, looks to the suburbs hidden throughout American history that did something a little different: forgotten places where utopian planning, communal living, socially conscious design, and integrated housing flourished.Go beyond the episode:Amanda Kolson Hurley’s Radical Suburbs: Experimental Living on the Fringes of the American CityMatthew Desmond’s Eviction Lab chronicles one aspect of the housing crisis whose solution might be informed by the model of the Greenbelt suburb, built with renters in mind“How the Suburbs Gave Birth to America's Most Diverse Neighborhoods” in CityLabRead Tracy Jan’s analysis for The Washington Post, “Redlining was banned 50 years ago. It’s still hurting minorities today.”An April study found that low-income residents in Washington, D.C., are being pushed out of the city at some of the highest rates in the countryRead about how some tenant organizers in Washington, D.C., are using rent strikes to combat eviction and gentrificationVisit Old Economy Village, where the Harmonists lived, or Six Moon Hill, now on the National Register of Historic Places, where a home recently sold for a cool $1.5 millionTune in every week to catch interviews with the liveliest voices from literature, the arts, sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek. Follow us on Twitter @TheAmScho or on Facebook.Subscribe: iTunes • Feedburner • Stitcher •

Affordable and stable housing has long been a precarious and stressful pursuit for many Americans. Housing costs across the country have risen, and evictions are becoming much more commonplace than in past years. In 2016, American property owners filed at least 2.3 million eviction claims. Princeton’s Eviction Lab, which recently released the nation’s largest eviction database, revealed that the Southern region is the area of the country’s most impacted by evictions and that Black renters are disproportionate the victims of the eviction crisis. Eviction Lab’s report revealed that nine of the 10 cities with the highest eviction rates are not only located in southern states but are also cities that are at least 30 percent black in population. This week we chat with Atlanta-based journalist Max Blau about why southern renters are losing their homes at such high rates, and we examine some of the social and political obstacles standing in the way of safe, stable and affordable housing for many African Americans.

Matthew Desmond went to Milwaukee to live with families being evicted from their homes. The personal stories he obtained there set the course for his book “Evicted,” which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2017. He then created a team at Princeton University to create a national database containing 80 million records on evictions since the year 2000. Data collected by this project shows that 2.3 million Americans in 2016 lived in a home that received an eviction notice. Desmond is the principal investigator at the Eviction Lab, where the database is available to policymakers and the public and researchers can find valuable information on what is going on in their communities and states. But he says more work needs to be done to fully understand the issue. Join us for an insightful conversation on the causes and effects of evictions and how policymakers can use the collected information to make informed decisions on this public policy issue. Additional Resources Transcription of Episode 48

Housing stock for low-income residents is aging, and housing conditions show it, from lead-based paint to poor heating systems and more. This poor-quality housing often leads to eviction, housing code violations and other hazards. How can residents avoid eviction and find a safe place to call home? On this special part-two episode, Dr. Cody Price speaks with Melissa Benson and Ben Horne from the Legal Aid Society of Columbus about housing conditions in Ohio and how tenants can avoid eviction. For more from the Office of Housing Policy, [visit our website](http://ohiohome.org/research/default.aspx) and follow us on Twitter [@ohiodoorsteps](https://twitter.com/ohiodoorsteps). To learn more about housing needs in Ohio, [click here](http://ohiohome.org/news/documents/2019-HousingNeedsAssessment.pdf). For more information on eviction in the United States, visit the Eviction Lab’s [website](www.evictionlab.org). Contact the [Legal Aid Society of Columbus](https://www.columbuslegalaid.org/) by calling 614-241-2001 or visiting their website. You can also find them on Twitter [@LASColumbus](https://twitter.com/LASColumbus). The views and opinions expressed in Doorsteps are those of the individuals involved and do not necessarily reflect those of the Ohio Housing Finance Agency.

In 2016, over 100,000 evictions were filed in Ohio alone. This week, Dr. Cody Price talks with Melissa Benson and Ben Horne from the Legal Aid Society of Columbus to discuss eviction, homelessness and rising rent costs in Ohio. What is at the root of this housing instability, and how do we tackle these issues in a cost-effective and humane way? For more from the Office of Housing Policy, [visit our website](http://ohiohome.org/research/default.aspx) and follow us on Twitter [@ohiodoorsteps](https://twitter.com/ohiodoorsteps). To learn more about housing needs in Ohio, [click here](http://ohiohome.org/news/documents/2019-HousingNeedsAssessment.pdf). For more information on eviction in the United States, visit the Eviction Lab’s [website](www.evictionlab.org).  Contact the [Legal Aid Society of Columbus](https://www.columbuslegalaid.org/) by calling 614-241-2001 or visiting their website. You can also find them on Twitter [@LASColumbus](https://twitter.com/LASColumbus). The views and opinions expressed in Doorsteps are those of the individuals involved and do not necessarily reflect those of the Ohio Housing Finance Agency.

节目摘要 这一集主要讨论了线上读书群上一期大家一起读的书：马修·德斯蒙德的《扫地出门：美国城市的贫穷与暴利》。下一期所读的书目是阿图·葛文德的《最好的告别：关于衰老与死亡，你必须知道的常识》。 节目备注 欢迎通过微博关注我们的节目@不丧Podcast和女主播@constancy好小气。 关于线上读书微信群：由于目前群人数超过100人，无法继续通过扫码入群。想要入群的朋友可以先加我的微信号（ID: hongming_qiao），然后再拉你入群。 我们的电报(Telegram)听友群：不丧电报群 我们播客的邮箱地址：busangpodcast@gmail.com 这集播客中提到的相关作品的介绍和链接： 电影&电视 《资本主义：一个爱情故事》(Capitalism: A Love Story)(2009) 《第十三修正案》(13th)(2016) 《国宝银行：小到可以进监狱》(Abacus: Small Enough to Jail)(2016) 《佛罗里达乐园》(The Florida Project)(2017) 书籍 《扫地出门：美国城市的贫穷与暴利》，马修·德斯蒙德 《我在底层的生活：当专栏作家化身女服务生》，芭芭拉·艾伦瑞克 Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America, Beth Macy 《最好的告别：关于衰老和死亡，你必须知道的常识》，阿图·葛文德 音乐 "完美的一天, 孙燕姿" "Rollercoaster, Bleachers" 其他 项飙：敢于不占有，是这个时代最大的革命 《扫地出门》的英文版学习指南 Eviction Lab, 德斯蒙德教授所带领的有关驱逐的研究项目 Just Shelter, 德斯蒙德教授成立的相关公益组织 如何收听「不丧」 任何设备都可以通过访问「不丧」的网站在线收听 我们推荐使用泛用型播客客户端收听「不丧」 泛用型播客客户端直接通过播客上传者提供的RSS向用户提供播客内容和信息，不会有第三方的干涉；并且只要上传者更新了Feed，就能在客户端上收听到节目。 iOS平台上我们推荐使用Podcast（苹果预装播客客户端），Castro，Overcast和Pocket Casts。 Android平台上收听方式可以参照这里。 macOS和Windows平台可以通过iTunes收听。

节目摘要 这一集主要讨论了线上读书群上一期大家一起读的书：马修·德斯蒙德的《扫地出门：美国城市的贫穷与暴利》。下一期所读的书目是阿图·葛文德的《最好的告别：关于衰老与死亡，你必须知道的常识》。 节目备注 欢迎通过微博关注我们的节目@不丧Podcast和女主播@constancy好小气。 关于线上读书微信群：由于目前群人数超过100人，无法继续通过扫码入群。想要入群的朋友可以先加我的微信号（ID: hongming_qiao），然后再拉你入群。 我们的电报(Telegram)听友群：不丧电报群 我们播客的邮箱地址：busangpodcast@gmail.com 这集播客中提到的相关作品的介绍和链接： 电影&电视 《资本主义：一个爱情故事》(Capitalism: A Love Story)(2009) 《第十三修正案》(13th)(2016) 《国宝银行：小到可以进监狱》(Abacus: Small Enough to Jail)(2016) 《佛罗里达乐园》(The Florida Project)(2017) 书籍 《扫地出门：美国城市的贫穷与暴利》，马修·德斯蒙德 《我在底层的生活：当专栏作家化身女服务生》，芭芭拉·艾伦瑞克 Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America, Beth Macy 《最好的告别：关于衰老和死亡，你必须知道的常识》，阿图·葛文德 音乐 "完美的一天, 孙燕姿" "Rollercoaster, Bleachers" 其他 项飙：敢于不占有，是这个时代最大的革命 《扫地出门》的英文版学习指南 Eviction Lab, 德斯蒙德教授所带领的有关驱逐的研究项目 Just Shelter, 德斯蒙德教授成立的相关公益组织 如何收听「不丧」 任何设备都可以通过访问「不丧」的网站在线收听 我们推荐使用泛用型播客客户端收听「不丧」 泛用型播客客户端直接通过播客上传者提供的RSS向用户提供播客内容和信息，不会有第三方的干涉；并且只要上传者更新了Feed，就能在客户端上收听到节目。 iOS平台上我们推荐使用Podcast（苹果预装播客客户端），Castro，Overcast和Pocket Casts。 Android平台上收听方式可以参照这里。 macOS和Windows平台可以通过iTunes收听。

节目摘要 这一集主要讨论了线上读书群上一期大家一起读的书：马修·德斯蒙德的《扫地出门：美国城市的贫穷与暴利》。下一期所读的书目是阿图·葛文德的《最好的告别：关于衰老与死亡，你必须知道的常识》。 节目备注 欢迎通过微博关注我们的节目@不丧Podcast和女主播@constancy好小气。 关于线上读书微信群：由于目前群人数超过100人，无法继续通过扫码入群。想要入群的朋友可以先加我的微信号（ID: hongming_qiao），然后再拉你入群。 我们的电报(Telegram)听友群：不丧电报群 我们播客的邮箱地址：busangpodcast@gmail.com 这集播客中提到的相关作品的介绍和链接： 电影&电视 《资本主义：一个爱情故事》(Capitalism: A Love Story)(2009) 《第十三修正案》(13th)(2016) 《国宝银行：小到可以进监狱》(Abacus: Small Enough to Jail)(2016) 《佛罗里达乐园》(The Florida Project)(2017) 书籍 《扫地出门：美国城市的贫穷与暴利》，马修·德斯蒙德 《我在底层的生活：当专栏作家化身女服务生》，芭芭拉·艾伦瑞克 Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America, Beth Macy 《最好的告别：关于衰老和死亡，你必须知道的常识》，阿图·葛文德 音乐 "完美的一天, 孙燕姿" "Rollercoaster, Bleachers" 其他 项飙：敢于不占有，是这个时代最大的革命 《扫地出门》的英文版学习指南 Eviction Lab, 德斯蒙德教授所带领的有关驱逐的研究项目 Just Shelter, 德斯蒙德教授成立的相关公益组织 如何收听「不丧」 任何设备都可以通过访问「不丧」的网站在线收听 我们推荐使用泛用型播客客户端收听「不丧」 泛用型播客客户端直接通过播客上传者提供的RSS向用户提供播客内容和信息，不会有第三方的干涉；并且只要上传者更新了Feed，就能在客户端上收听到节目。 iOS平台上我们推荐使用Podcast（苹果预装播客客户端），Castro，Overcast和Pocket Casts。 Android平台上收听方式可以参照这里。 macOS和Windows平台可以通过iTunes收听。

In Jefferson County, an average of 7,500 households are evicted every year, more than double the national average according to data from Princeton University’s Eviction Lab. It should come at no surprise that most evictions occur in the poorest neighborhoods — in west and south Louisville. Jake Ryan from the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting teamed up with Anne Marshall, who wrote about evictions for Louisville Magazine. They went to eviction court, spoke with people facing eviction, and with the sheriff's deputies who serve eviction notices. Jake and Anne join us today on Recut.

Last week, Ben Carson, President Trump’s Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, unveiled a proposal to triple rents for the poorest families and take housing assistance away from unemployed and underemployed workers. This announcement comes amid a nationwide affordable housing crisis: In no state in the U.S. can a minimum wage worker earning $7.25 afford even a one-bedroom apartment at market rent. Meanwhile, just 1 in 5 eligible low-income families receive help from the nation’s already massively underfunded housing assistance programs, leaving others paying 50, 60, 70 percent of their incomes on rent — while they languish on years, sometimes decades-long waitlists. Many end up facing eviction. A new dataset produced by sociologist and Evicted author Matthew Desmond and his team at the Eviction Lab shines staggering new light on the scale and scope of the eviction epidemic. Cities such as Richmond, Virginia, face annual eviction rates as high as 1 in 9 households. Meanwhile, an exhibit at the National Building Museum based on Desmond’s book brings the issue to life. This week on Off-Kilter, to help Ben Carson — and the rest of us — get up to speed on the reality of America’s affordable housing crisis, which his proposal would put on steroids, Rebecca speaks with two people working to fight eviction in very different ways. But first, Jeremy Slevin, aka The Slevinator, returns from his brush with the bubonic plague with the news of the week, In Case You Missed It.

Rental eviction rates in Hampton Roads are among the worst in the country. Lavar Edmonds, an Eviction Lab researcher, says that eviction is an affordable-housing issue. Today, we'll examine why rates are so high in Hampton Roads and discuss what's being done to combat the issue. Later, we'll learn about the incredible Norfolk Street Choir.