Article about Evictions Rings True

Evictionland by Joseph Williams, a former Politico journalist, tells the story of when he found himself facing eviction and homelessness.

“Helping people stay in their homes yields big dividends, not only for the city—which saves on welfare and emergency social services costs—but for tenants. A single eviction, studies show, can demolish a tenant’s credit, undermine job opportunities, exacerbate homelessness and health, and make it far more difficult to keep one’s place on the class ladder, let alone advance a rung. I finally got my own place this year: a single room in a split-level family home, all I could manage after getting a journalism job that pays me far less than I earned at Politico.”

You can read the entire article here: www.curbed.com/2018/1/24/16925074/apartment-eviction-process-gentrification