Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Do you think Larraine will ever get her stuff out of storage?

Larraine was unable to get her stuff out of storage after she was evicted; she simply couldn't afford to. So the eviction moving company took her things to a dump. The immediate cause of Larraine's eviction was that she used some of her rent money to pay for a gas bill. Like many Americans below the poverty line, Larraine spends over 70 percent of her income on rent, leaving very little to spend on anything else, including groceries and utilities. But the underlying cause of such evictions is what Desmond calls the eviction economy. Behind each tragic story of eviction someone somewhere is making money off of it, whether it's unscrupulous landlords or moving companies. As Desmond is at pains to point out, such people aren't making big money despite poverty but because of it. The eviction economy is big business to some, and actually incentivizes the forcing out of people like Larraine.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/06/opinion/sunday/the-eviction-economy.html

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