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https://www.macfound.org/fellows/933/
Source: MacArthur Foundation
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https://inequality.hks.harvard.edu/fi...
Evictions are troublingly common for America’s poorest families. Harvard sociologist Matthew Desmond’s new book, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, shows that evictions are a cause, not just a condition, of poverty. Matthew Desmond, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, was joined by a panel of experts that included William Julius Wilson of Harvard University, Xavier de Souza Briggs of the Ford Foundation, and Jennifer Gonnerman of The New Yorker. Bruce Western of Harvard University moderated. Sponsored by the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, Mar 3, 2016.
Source: Malcolm Wiener Center in Social Policy - Harvard Kennedy School
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Source: Youtube
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Embedded in the lives of the urban poor 36 year old Harvard professor Matthew Desmond examines the lives of those effected by Eviction. Photos from Michael Kienitz
Source: Youtube
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Harvard Sociologist Matthew Desmond discusses the prevalence and consequences of eviction in poor urban communities hosted by Family Action Network. This program was recorded by Chicago Access Network Television (CAN TV).
Source: Youtube and Can TV
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by Frances Fox Piven (no photo)Synopsis:
Have the poor fared best by participating in conventional electoral politics or by engaging in mass defiance and disruption? The authors of the classic Regulating The Poor assess the successes and failures of these two strategies as they examine, in this provocative study, four protest movements of lower-class groups in 20th century America:
-- The mobilization of the unemployed during the Great Depression that gave rise to the Workers' Alliance of America
-- The industrial strikes that resulted in the formation of the CIO
-- The Southern Civil Rights Movement
-- The movement of welfare recipients led by the National Welfare Rights Organization
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by St. Clair Drake (no photo)Synopsis:
Ground-breaking when first published in 1945, Black Metropolis remains a landmark study of race and urban life. Based on a mass of research conducted by Works Progress Administration field workers in the late 1930s, it is a historical and sociological account of the people of Chicago's South Side, the classic urban ghetto. Drake and Cayton's findings not only offer a generalized analysis of black migration, settlement, community structure, and black-white race relations in the early part of the twentieth century, but also tell us what has changed in the last hundred years and what has not. This edition includes the original Introduction by Richard Wright and a new Foreword by William Julius Wilson.
"Black Metropolis is a rare combination of research and synthesis, a book to be deeply pondered. . . . No one who reads it intelligently can ever believe again that our racial dilemma can be solved by pushing buttons, or by gradual processes which may reach four or five hundred years into the future."—Bucklin Moon, The Nation
"This volume makes a great contribution to the building of the future American and the free world."—Louis Wirth, New York Times
"By virtue of its range, its labor and its insight, the book seems certain to become a landmark not only in race studies but in the broader field of social anthropology."—Thomas Sancton, New Republic
Award:
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Nonfiction (1946)
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Without a Home, Everything Else Falls Apart
https://justshelter.org
Source: Just Shelter
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A LOOK BACK AT “MARCH ON MILWAUKEE” AFTER HALF CENTURY - Posted by Margaret Rozga | Jun 29, 2017 |
The Year was 1967 - the Place was Milwaukee
Early in the evening of Monday, August 28, 1967, over one hundred members of the Milwaukee Youth Council of the NAACP gathered at their headquarters at 1316 North 15th Street, picked up signs hand-lettered with slogans like “We Need Fair Housing,” and, led by Father James E. Groppi, a white Roman Catholic priest who served as their adviser, headed toward the 16th Street viaduct.
At about 6:30 p.m. they were greeted at the north end of the viaduct by almost another one hundred supporters and crossed over the viaduct to the nearly all-white south side of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. There the marchers met resistance.
On the southeast corner of South 16th Street and West National Avenue, young white men sat on the hoods of cars at Crazy Jim’s Motors, holding other signs including one that read “Groppi—the Black god.”
In fact, as many as 8,000 people, according to Milwaukee Police estimates, lined the route on South 16th Street and then along West Lincoln Avenue east to Kosciusko Park.
These counter-demonstrators jeered, taunted, and cursed the young open housing marchers.
What caused this confrontation? And what were the results?
Answering those questions involves stepping back away from the viaduct to look at issues and events that brought 1967 Milwaukee to this brink.
Mention the 1960s and most audiences think in terms of multiple branches of activity, including anti-Vietnam war protests, student unrest, and a youth counterculture, all stemming from and following the civil rights movement.
In this view, the civil rights movement came into the national picture with two prominent events.
The first is the 1954 Supreme Court decision Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka, Kаnsаs. This ruling overturned the doctrine of separate but equal, the standard in public education and accommodation for over fifty years, since the Supreme Court had issued it in 1896 in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson.
The second event credited with initiating the modern civil rights movement is the 1955-1956 Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott. Begun after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a city bus to a white person, the boycott of the bus system by Montgomery’s African American community resulted in a Supreme Court ruling to end bus segregation in Montgomery.
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who emerged as a leader in the Montgomery boycott, went on to become the foremost spokesman for the civil rights movement, and, as the subsequent years have compressed many events into a single image, Dr. King has become the icon that signifies the civil rights movement.
Many histories of the movement end with the 1965 Selma to Montgomery March and the subsequent passage of the Voting Rights Bill of 1965, signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson, August 6, 1965.
Remainder of article:
http://www.milwaukeeindependent.com/a...
Source: The Milwaukee Independent
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By Holly Yan, CNN
Updated 5:41 PM ET, Mon August 15, 2016
https://www.cnn.com/2016/08/15/us/mil...
Source: CNN
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About the Author
MATTHEW DESMOND is a professor of sociology at Princeton University.
After receiving his PhD in 2010 from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, he joined the Harvard Society of Fellows as a Junior Fellow.
He is the author of four books, including Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (2016), which won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Andrew Carnegie Medal, and the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction.
The principal investigator of The Eviction Lab, Desmond researches poverty in America, city life, housing insecurity, public policy, racial inequality, and ethnography. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award, and the William Julius 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.”
Desmond, Matthew. Evicted (p. 420). Crown/Archetype. Kindle Edition.
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by Beryl Satter (no photo)Synopsis:
Part family story and part urban history, a landmark investigation of segregation and urban decay in Chicago—and cities across the nation
The "promised land" for thousands of Southern blacks, postwar Chicago quickly became the most segregated city in the North, the site of the nation’s worst ghettos and the target of Martin Luther King Jr.’s first campaign beyond the South.
In this powerful book, Beryl Satter identifies the true causes of the city’s black slums and the ruin of urban neighborhoods throughout the country: not, as some have argued, black pathology, the culture of poverty, or white flight, but a widespread and institutionalized system of legal and financial exploitation.
In Satter’s riveting account of a city in crisis, unscrupulous lawyers, slumlords, and speculators are pitched against religious reformers, community organizers, and an impassioned attorney who launched a crusade against the profiteers—the author’s father, Mark J. Satter.
At the heart of the struggle stand the black migrants who, having left the South with its legacy of sharecropping, suddenly find themselves caught in a new kind of debt peonage.
Satter shows the interlocking forces at work in their oppression: the discriminatory practices of the banking industry; the federal policies that created the country’s shameful "dual housing market"; the economic anxieties that fueled white violence; and the tempting profits to be made by preying on the city’s most vulnerable population.
A monumental work of history, this tale of racism and real estate, politics and finance, will forever change our understanding of the forces that transformed uurban America.
Note: Although nationally representative historical data on eviction do not exist, these historical accounts of the first half of the twentieth century depict evictions as rare and shocking events. Some local studies from the second half of the twentieth century, however, document nontrivial rates of involuntary displacement in American cities.
Desmond, Matthew. Evicted (p. 343). Crown/Archetype. Kindle Edition.
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(no image) Why Families Move by Peter H. Rossi (no photo)
Synopsis:
When Why Families Move first appeared in 1956, it represented one of the first major attempts to examine residential mobility and its implications for social policy. In presenting the second edition, Rossi provides analysis of the data and findings of the intervening 23 years, as well as an extensive bibliographic update. This book reaffirms the basic validity of the original study and new scholars will welcome the opportunity to become acquainted with this classic study.
Estimates in the book Evicted draw on the American Housing Survey (AHS), 1991–2013.
They are conservative estimates, since they exclude renter households reporting no cash income as well as those reporting zero or negative income.
The AHS records renting households that reported housing costs in excess of 100 percent of family income.
For some households, this scenario reflects response error.
For others, including those living off savings and those whose rent and utility bill actually is larger than their income, it does not.
Analyses that have examined renter households reporting a housing cost burden in excess of 100 percent of their family income have found that only a minority of these households report receiving some assistance with rent (11 percent) or utilities (5 percent)—assistance which may be ongoing or take place on a single occasion.
If you include households reporting a housing cost burden in excess of 100 percent of family income, you find that in 2013, 70 percent of poor renting families were dedicating half of their income to housing costs, and 53 percent were dedicating 70 percent or more of their income.
If you exclude these households, you find that 51 percent of poor renting families were dedicating at least half of their income to housing costs, and almost one-quarter were dedicating over 70 percent of their income to it.
The right number rests somewhere in the middle of these two point estimates, meaning that in 2013 between 50 and 70 percent of poor renting families spent half of their income on housing and between 25 and 50 percent spent at least 70 percent on it. The number of renter households dedicating less than 30 percent of family income to housing costs fell from 1.3 million in 1991 to 1.07 million in 2013, even as the total renter households grew by almost 6.3 million during that time.
During those same years, the number of renter households dedicating 70 percent or more of their income to housing costs grew from 2.4 million to 4.7 million (if you include households reporting housing cost burden in excess of 100 percent of family income) or from 901,000 to 1.3 million (if you exclude those households). Housing costs include contract rent, utilities, property insurance, and mobile-home park fees.
Here, income refers to the sum of all wages, salaries, benefits, and some in-kind aid (food stamps) for the householder, relatives living under the same roof, and a “primary individual” living in the same household but unrelated to the householder.
When calculating housing burden, the AHS chose to use this income measure, called family income, over household income to “approximate whose income may be available for housing and other shared living expenses.” (The AHS poverty status definitions, however, are based on household income.)
The American Housing Survey (AHS) collects data on the reasons renters relocated with the question, “What are the reasons you moved from your last residence?” and reports this information with respect to the most recent move of renters who moved within the previous year.
According to the 2009 AHS (Table 4-11), among renters nationwide who had moved in the past year, between 2.1 and 5.5 percent were forced from their previous unit on account of private displacement (e.g., owner moved into unit, converted to condominium), government displacement (e.g., unit was found unfit for occupancy), or eviction. (The 2.1 percent estimate is based on renters’ reported “main reason for moving,” which is too limiting because those who were involuntarily displaced but listed another factor as their “main” reason for moving [e.g., poor housing conditions] would be excluded from this figure.
The 5.5 percent estimate is based on all reasons given for moving, which may double-count some renters who report multiple kinds of forced moves. The most appropriate measure, therefore, is somewhere between the two point estimates.)
According to the Milwaukee Area Renters Study (2009–2011), 10.8 percent of the most recent moves of renters who had moved within the previous year were forced. My estimate is larger—and more accurate—because MARS captured informal evictions.
When informal evictions were excluded, my estimate drops to 3 percent, which aligns with the AHS estimate. The AHS, along with most material-hardship studies, significantly underestimates the prevalence of involuntary removal among renters by relying on open-ended questions that do not adequately capture informal evictions that many renters do not consider to be “evictions.”
The national estimates about the proportion of poor renting families being unable to pay all of their rent and believing they soon would be evicted come from the American Housing Survey, 2013, Table S-08-RO, which also reported that over 2.8 million renting households in the US believed it was “very likely” or “somewhat likely” that they would be evicted within the next two months.
With respect to statewide eviction estimates: The Neighborhood Law Clinic at the University of Wisconsin Law School has begun to record state-level eviction filings. (Eviction filings [being called to eviction court] are different from eviction judgments [being ordered to move out by court order].
In all cities, there are more filings than judgments. My estimate of Milwaukee’s formal, court-ordered eviction rate is based on judgments, which is a much harder metric to obtain and validate in other cities.)
In 2012, the numbers broke down like this: Alabama, 22,824 evictions filed in court (pop. 4.8 million); Minnesota, 22,165 evictions filed in court (pop. 5.4 million); Oregon, 23,452 evictions filed in court (pop. 3.9 million); Washington, 18,060 evictions filed in court (pop. 6.9 million); Wisconsin, 28,533 evictions filed in court (pop. 5.7 million).
See the epilogue for eviction estimates in cities other than Milwaukee. On measuring involuntary displacement, see Desmond and Shollenberger, “Forced Displacement from Rental Housing”; Hartman and Robinson, “Evictions: The Hidden Housing Problem.”
Desmond, Matthew. Evicted (p. 345). Crown/Archetype. Kindle Edition.
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https://academic.oup.com/sf/article-a...
Source: Social Forces
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https://www.yalelawjournal.org/note/t...
Source: Yale Law Journal
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https://www.census.gov/programs-surve...
Source: US Census
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https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/...
Source: US Department of Housing and Urban Development
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https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/mde...
Source: American Journal of Sociology
Note:
Milwaukee County Eviction Records, 2003–2007, and GeoLytics Population Estimates, 2003–2007; Milwaukee Area Renters Study, 2009–2011.
For a detailed explanation of the methodology, see Matthew Desmond, “Eviction and the Reproduction of Urban Poverty,” American Journal of Sociology 118 (2012): 88–133;
Desmond, Matthew. Evicted (p. 344). Crown/Archetype. Kindle Edition.
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https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/mde...
Source: Demography
Note:
Matthew Desmond and Tracey Shollenberger, “Forced Displacement from Rental Housing: Prevalence and Neighborhood Consequences,” Demography, forthcoming. Throughout this book, I use custom design weights to facilitate estimates generalizable to Milwaukee’s rental population. All descriptive statistics that draw on the Milwaukee Area Renters Study are weighted.
Desmond, Matthew. Evicted (p. 344). Crown/Archetype. Kindle Edition.
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https://www.innovations.harvard.edu/s...
Source: Housing Policy Debate
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Chester Hartman and David Robinson (“Evictions: The Hidden Housing Problem,” Housing Policy Debate 14 [2003]: 461–501, 461) estimate that the number of Americans evicted every year “is likely in the many millions.”
Desmond, Matthew. Evicted (p. 345). Crown/Archetype. Kindle Edition.
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Kathryn EdinSynopsis:
Welfare mothers are popularly viewed as passively dependent on their checks and averse to work.
Reformers across the political spectrum advocate moving these women off the welfare rolls and into the labor force as the solution to their problems.
Making Ends Meet offers dramatic evidence toward a different conclusion: In the present labor market, unskilled single mothers who hold jobs are frequently worse off than those on welfare, and neither welfare nor low-wage employment alone will support a family at subsistence levels.
Kathryn Edin and Laura Lein interviewed nearly four hundred welfare and low-income single mothers from cities in Massachusetts, Texas, Illinois, and South Carolina over a six year period.
They learned the reality of these mothers' struggles to provide for their families: where their money comes from, what they spend it on, how they cope with their children's needs, and what hardships they suffer.
Edin and Lein's careful budgetary analyses reveal that even a full range of welfare benefits—AFDC payments, food stamps, Medicaid, and housing subsidies—typically meet only three-fifths of a family's needs, and that funds for adequate food, clothing and other necessities are often lacking.
Leaving welfare for work offers little hope for improvement, and in many cases threatens even greater hardship.
Jobs for unskilled and semi-skilled women provide meager salaries, irregular or uncertain hours, frequent layoffs, and no promise of advancement.
Mothers who work not only assume extra child care, medical, and transportation expenses but are also deprived of many of the housing and educational subsidies available to those on welfare.
Regardless of whether they are on welfare or employed, virtually all these single mothers need to supplement their income with menial, off-the-books work and intermittent contributions from family, live-in boyfriends, their children's fathers, and local charities. In doing so, they pay a heavy price.
Welfare mothers must work covertly to avoid losing benefits, while working mothers are forced to sacrifice even more time with their children.
Making Ends Meet demonstrates compellingly why the choice between welfare and work is more complex and risky than is commonly recognized by politicians, the media, or the public.
Almost all the welfare-reliant women interviewed by Edin and Lein made repeated efforts to leave welfare for work, only to be forced to return when they lost their jobs, a child became ill, or they could not cover their bills with their wages.
Mothers who managed more stable employment usually benefited from a variety of mitigating circumstances such as having a relative willing to watch their children for free, regular child support payments, or very low housing, medical, or commuting costs.
With first hand accounts and detailed financial data, Making Ends Meet tells the real story of the challenges, hardships, and survival strategies of America's poorest families.
If this country's efforts to improve the self-sufficiency of female-headed families is to succeed, reformers will need to move beyond the myths of welfare dependency and deal with the hard realities of an unrewarding American labor market, the lack of affordable health insurance and child care for single mothers who work, and the true cost of subsistence living.
Making Ends Meet is a realistic look at a world that so many would change and so few understand.
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The median annual household income among Milwaukee renters is $30,398, almost $5,500 lower than that of the city’s overall population. See Nicolas Retsinas and Eric Belsky, Revisiting Rental Housing (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press and the Harvard University Joint Center for Housing Studies, 2008).
Desmond, Matthew. Evicted (p. 346). Crown/Archetype. Kindle Edition.
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by Nicolas P. Retsinas (no photo)Synopsis:
Rental housing is increasingly recognized as a vital housing option in the United States.
Government policies and programs continue to grapple with problematic issues, however, including affordability, distressed urban neighborhoods, concentrated poverty, substandard housing stock, and the unmet needs of the disabled, the elderly, and the homeless.
In Revisiting Rental Housing, leading housing researchers build upon decades of experience, research, and evaluation to inform our understanding of the nation's rental housing challenges and what can be done about them.
It thoughtfully addresses not only present issues affecting rental housing, but also viable solutions. The first section reviews the contributing factors and primary problems generated by the operation of rental markets.
In the second section, contributors dissect how policies and programs have—or have not—dealt with the primary challenges; what improvements—if any—have been gained; and the lessons learned in the process.
The final section looks to potential new directions in housing policy, including integrating best practices from past lessons into existing programs, and new innovations for large-scale, long-term market and policy solutions that get to the root of rental housing challenges.
Contributors include William C. Apgar (Harvard University), Anthony Downs (Brookings), Rachel Drew (Harvard University), Ingrid Gould Ellen (New York University), George C. Galster (Wayne State University), Bruce Katz (Brookings), Jill Khadduri (Abt Associates), Shekar Narasimhan (Beekman Advisors), Rolf Pendall (Cornell University), John M. Quigley (University of California–Berkeley), James A. Riccio (MDRC), Stuart S. Rosenthal (Syracuse University), Margery Austin Turner (Urban Institute), and Charles Wilkins (Compass Group).
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Where you bought in the city depended on who you were, especially when it came to race. Milwaukee landlords were more likely than not to share their tenants’ racial or ethnic identity.
Most white tenants in the city (87 percent) rented from white landlords; and most black tenants (51 percent) rented from black landlords.
Overall, the majority of tenants in Milwaukee (63 percent) rented from a white landlord. But almost 1 in 5 rented from a black landlord, while almost 1 in 9 rented from a Hispanic landlord.
Among Hispanic renters, roughly half rented from Hispanic landlords and half from white landlords, and 41 percent of Hispanic renters in Milwaukee believed their landlord was born outside the United States.
Landlording had long been a way for immigrants to break into the American middle class. In the early twentieth century, Polish immigrants in Milwaukee took to jacking up their houses, building basement apartments, and renting them out.
As the South Side of Milwaukee transitioned from Polish to Hispanic, immigrants from Mexico and Puerto Rico became the ones renting out those “Polish Flats.”
Desmond, Matthew. Evicted (p. 346). Crown/Archetype. Kindle Edition.
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by John Gurda (no photo)Synopsis:
These words call up an image of an ethnic, industrial town whose skyline is thick with smokestacks and steeples, a place whose character can be summed up in another "B" word: blue-collar.
It's true that Milwaukee's German accent was unmistakable in the 1880s; it was the Beer Capital of the World; and it's the home of the steam shovels that dug the Panama Canal the engines that powered the New York City subway system, and the motorcycles that made Harley-Davidson an American legend.
But the stereotypes don't begin to convey the richness of Milwaukee's past.
They don't describe the five citizens killed by the state militia as they marched for the eight-hour day.
The Jewish community leader who wrote The Settlement Cookbook.
The Italian priest who led the local crusade for civil rights in the 1960s.
The railroad promoter who bribed an entire state legislature. The Socialists who made Milwaukee the best-governed big city in America. Allis-Chalmers and Pabst Blue Ribbon. Summerfest and Irish Fest. Golda Meir. Carl Sandburg. Robin Yount.
The Making of Milwaukee tells all those stories and a great many more.
Well-written, superbly organized, and lavishly illustrated, it is sure to be the standard reference for many years to come.
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Unlike in past decades, when the typical inner-city landlord was white, the deeper you went into the inner city, the more likely it became that your landlord was black: in neighborhoods where at least two-thirds of the residents were African American, 3 in 4 renters had a black landlord. On white landlords in black neighborhoods in past eras, see St. Clair Drake and Horace Cayton, Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City (New York: Harcourt, Brace, and World, 1945), 718.
Desmond, Matthew. Evicted (p. 346). Crown/Archetype. Kindle Edition.
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by St. Clair Drake (no photo)Synopsis:
Ground-breaking when first published in 1945, Black Metropolis remains a landmark study of race and urban life. Based on a mass of research conducted by Works Progress Administration field workers in the late 1930s, it is a historical and sociological account of the people of Chicago's South Side, the classic urban ghetto. Drake and Cayton's findings not only offer a generalized analysis of black migration, settlement, community structure, and black-white race relations in the early part of the twentieth century, but also tell us what has changed in the last hundred years and what has not. This edition includes the original Introduction by Richard Wright and a new Foreword by William Julius Wilson.
"Black Metropolis is a rare combination of research and synthesis, a book to be deeply pondered. . . . No one who reads it intelligently can ever believe again that our racial dilemma can be solved by pushing buttons, or by gradual processes which may reach four or five hundred years into the future."—Bucklin Moon, The Nation
"This volume makes a great contribution to the building of the future American and the free world."—Louis Wirth, New York Times
"By virtue of its range, its labor and its insight, the book seems certain to become a landmark not only in race studies but in the broader field of social anthropology."—Thomas Sancton, New Republic
Award:
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Nonfiction (1946)
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Most tenants in Milwaukee rented from a man. (Eighty-two percent of Milwaukee tenants reported renting from a single individual, as opposed to a couple, and 62 percent of those lone-wolf landlords were men.)
Sherrena was bucking that trend. But when she stepped out of the car in front of Lamar’s house, as a black landlord meeting her black tenants, she was more norm than exception. Milwaukee Area Renters Study, 2009–2011.
Desmond, Matthew. Evicted (p. 346). Crown/Archetype. Kindle Edition.
I did not personally witness this event. The scene was reconstructed through interviews with Sherrena, Quentin, and Community Advocates social workers.
Desmond, Matthew. Evicted (p. 346). Crown/Archetype. Kindle Edition.
Of those, about 1 in 7 had their utilities shut off. A family renting crumbling housing on a dangerous street paid less rent than an affluent one living in a swanky downtown loft—but their utility costs often were equivalent. In some cases, renters living at the bottom of the market paid more for utilities than those living at the top because they could not afford new construction with thick insulation, double-paned windows, or Energy Star appliances. Nationwide, renting families responsible for utilities with incomes less than $15,000 spend an average of $116 a month on utilities; those with incomes in excess of $75,000 spend $151 a month. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index, 2000–2013; American Housing Survey, 2013, Table S-08-R0; Michael Carliner, Reducing Energy Costs in Rental Housing: The Need and the Potential (Cambridge: Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University, 2013).
Desmond, Matthew. Evicted (p. 346). Crown/Archetype. Kindle Edition.
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http://energyefficiencyforall.org/res...
Source: Harvard
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We Energies, whose service area extends beyond Milwaukee to other parts of Wisconsin and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, processes roughly 4,000 cases of theft every year. (Personal communication, Brian Manthey, We Energies, July 22, 2014.) See Peter Kelly, “Electricity Theft: A Bigger Issue Than You Think,” Forbes, April 23, 2013; “Using Analytics to Crack Down on Electricity Theft,” CIO Journal, from the Wall Street Journal, December 2, 2013.
Desmond, Matthew. Evicted (p. 347). Crown/Archetype. Kindle Edition.
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterdet...
Source: Forbes
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https://deloitte.wsj.com/cio/2013/12/...
Source: Wall Street Journal
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The moratorium applies to both gas and electric heating sources. The disconnection estimates come from a personal communication with Brian Manthey, We Energies, July 24, 2014. On monthly eviction trends, see Matthew Desmond, “Eviction and the Reproduction of Urban Poverty,” American Journal of Sociology 118 (2012): 88–133, Figure A2.
Desmond, Matthew. Evicted (p. 347). Crown/Archetype. Kindle Edition.
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https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/mde...
Source: Harvard
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John Gurda, The Making of Milwaukee, 3rd ed. (Milwaukee: Milwaukee County Historical Society, 2008 [1999]), 421–22; see also 416–18; Sammis White et al., The Changing Milwaukee Industrial Structure, 1979–1988 (Milwaukee: University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Urban Research Center, 1988).
Desmond, Matthew. Evicted (p. 347). Crown/Archetype. Kindle Edition.
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William Julius Wilson, The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy, 2nd ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012 [1987]); Marc Levine, The Crisis Continues: Black Male Joblessness in Milwaukee (Milwaukee: University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Center for Economic Development, 2008).
Desmond, Matthew. Evicted (p. 347). Crown/Archetype. Kindle Edition.
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William Julius WilsonSynopsis:
"The Truly Disadvantaged should spur critical thinking in many quarters about the causes and possible remedies for inner city poverty. As policy makers grapple with the problems of an enlarged underclass they—as well as community leaders and all concerned Americans of all races—would be advised to examine Mr. Wilson's incisive analysis."—Robert Greenstein, New York Times Book Review
"'Must reading' for civil-rights leaders, leaders of advocacy organizations for the poor, and for elected officials in our major urban centers."—Bernard C. Watson, Journal of Negro Education
"Required reading for anyone, presidential candidate or private citizen, who really wants to address the growing plight of the black urban underclass."—David J. Garrow, Washington Post Book World
Selected by the editors of the New York Times Book Review as one of the sixteen best books of 1987.
Award:
Winner of the 1988 C. Wright Mills Award of the Society for the Study of Social Problems.
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http://www.thecyberhood.net/documents...
Source: Center for Economic Development
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by Jason DeParle (no photo)Synopsis:
Bill Clinton's drive to "end welfare" sent 9 million women and children streaming from the rolls.
In this masterful work, New York Times reporter and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Jason DeParle cuts between the mean streets of Milwaukee and the corridors of Washington to produce the definitive account.
As improbable as fiction, and equally fast-paced, this classic of literary journalism has captured the acclaim of the Left and Right.
At the heart of the story are three cousins, inseparable at the start but launched on differing arcs.
Leaving welfare, Angie puts her heart in her work. Jewell bets on an imprisoned man. Opal guards a tragic secret that threatens her kids and her life. DeParle traces back their family history six generations to slavery, and weaves poor people, politicians, reformers, and rogues into a spellbinding epic.
At times, the very idea of America seemed on trial: we live in a country where anyone can make it, yet generation after generation some families don't.
Washington Post: "Riveting... like a searing novel of urban realism -
Theodore Dreiser comes to Milwaukee." Chicago Tribune:
"Sweeping scope and dramatic detail worthy of Charles Dickens."
Award:
Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism (2005)
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State of Wisconsin, Department of Children and Families, Rights and Responsibilities: A Help Guide, 2014, 6. 5.
I did not personally witness Lamar’s interaction with his caseworker. This quotation is from Lamar’s account of the conversation.
And I did not personally witness the painting scene. It was reconstructed through conversations with Lamar, his sons, and the neighborhood boys.
Landlording is one of the last vestiges of family capitalism in America. Rental properties get handed down from fathers to sons, and it is not unusual to meet a second- or even a fourth-generation landlord. See Daniel Bell, The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties (New York: Collier Books, 1961), chapter 2.
Desmond, Matthew. Evicted (p. 347). Crown/Archetype. Kindle Edition.
A 1960s study found that 8 in 10 rental properties in Newark, New Jersey, were owned by people for whom rent contributed less than
people for whom rent contributed less than three-quarters of their income. George Sternlieb, The Tenement Landlord (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1969).
This happened during a time when the entire American labor force grew by only 50 percent.
David Thacher, “The Rise of Criminal Background Screening in Rental Housing,” Law and Social Inquiry 33 (2008): 5–30.
Author’s calculations based on the Library of Congress call number HD1394 (rental property, real estate management). This idea is indebted to Thacher, “Rise of Criminal Background Screening in Rental Housing.”
In 2009, the going rate for a two-bedroom apartment in inner-city Milwaukee was $550, utilities not included. The going rate for a room in a rooming house in the same neighborhood was $400 per room, utilities included. The profit margins of rooming houses often were better. Milwaukee Area Renters Study, 2009–2011.
Desmond, Matthew. Evicted (p. 348). Crown/Archetype. Kindle Edition.
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by Daniel Bell (no photo)Synopsis:
Named by the Times Literary Supplement as one of the 100 most influential books since the end of World War II, The End of Ideology has been a landmark in American social thought, regarded as a classic since its first publication in 1962.
Daniel Bell postulated that the older humanistic ideologies derived from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were exhausted, and that new parochial ideologies would arise. In a new introduction to the year 2000 edition, he argues that with the end of communism, we are seeing a resumption of history, a lifting of the heavy ideological blanket and the return of traditional ethnic and religious conflicts in the many regions of the former socialist states and elsewhere.
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The Tenement Landlord by George Sternlieb (no photo)
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by Patrick D. Jones (no photo)Synopsis:
Between 1958 and 1970, a distinctive movement for racial justice emerged from unique circumstances in Milwaukee. A series of local leaders inspired growing numbers of people to participate in campaigns against employment and housing discrimination, segregated public schools, the membership of public officials in discriminatory organizations, welfare cuts, and police brutality.
The Milwaukee movement culminated in the dramatic—and sometimes violent—1967 open housing campaign. A white Catholic priest, James Groppi, led the NAACP Youth Council and Commandos in a militant struggle that lasted for 200 consecutive nights and provoked the ire of thousands of white residents. After working-class mobs attacked demonstrators, some called Milwaukee “the Selma of the North.” Others believed the housing campaign represented the last stand for a nonviolent, interracial, church-based movement.
Patrick Jones tells a powerful and dramatic story that is important for its insights into civil rights history: the debate over nonviolence and armed self-defense, the meaning of Black Power, the relationship between local and national movements, and the dynamic between southern and northern activism. Jones offers a valuable contribution to movement history in the urban North that also adds a vital piece to the national story.
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The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties, with "The Resumption of History in the New Century" (other topics)
American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation's Drive to End Welfare (other topics)
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