![]() ![]() In fact, Desmond wrote two years ago that eviction has a similar effect on low-income African-American neighborhoods as mass incarceration. And a bill, signed into law by Governor Walker this week, gives landlords additional powers to evict tenants. According to his research, one in every eight Milwaukee renters faces eviction - either by legal or other means - every two years. "Eviction is really coursing through our cities today," Desmond says. "If you look at books from the 1930s and 1940s, you're left with the really clear impression that evictions used to be rare," he says. So in his graduate work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison almost a decade ago, Desmond set out to learn what issue ties these groups together. What he found was evictions. These kind of bonds between poor folks and non-poor folks that are really central to creating and maintaining inequality today." "What's missing," Desmond says, "is kind of a relationship. 1 in 8 renters faces some form of eviction every 2 years here. ![]() Eviction impacts blacks and whites in Milwaukee. ![]()
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