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Black women tend to be most affected by gentrification and evictions in the US, according to experts. Mass incarceration of black men has put much of the financial and child-rearing burden on their partners, said Rasheedah Phillips, managing attorney for the housing unit at Philadelphia’s Community Legal Services, where nearly two-thirds of the clients are black women.
She quoted Matthew Desmond’s Pulitzer-winning book, Evicted: “Black men are locked up and black women are locked out.”
Today, most poor renting families spend at least half of their income on housing costs, with one in four of those families spending over 70 percent of their income just on rent and utilities…. Only one in four families who qualifies for affordable housing programs gets any kind of help. Under those conditions, it has become harder for low-income families to keep up with rent and utility costs, and a growing number are living one misstep or emergency away from eviction.
Per Pew Research Center, Black and Latinx households in the United States are about twice as likely to rent their homes as White households. Researchers noted that poor women of color, domestic violence victims and women with children have a high risk of eviction. In a 2014 study authored by Desmond, Black women with low-incomes were evicted at alarmingly higher rates than other racial groups due to factors such as having children, low wages and landlord-tenant gender dynamics.
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