Housing Rights Center Los Angeles
Executive Director of Housing Rights Center in Los Angeles, which deals with landlord-tenant issues. Former legal aid attorney representing tenants.PROFILE
Chancela Al-Mansour
FROM Chancela Al-Mansour
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The Eviction Industrial Complex Eviction -- it used to be a rare occurrence, a last resort for the worst tenants. Now it’s more common than many people may realize. Harvard social science professor Matthew Desmond set out to capture the reality of what he calls “The Eviction Economy” by embedding for several months with low-income tenants in the city of Milwaukee -- and also spending time with their landlords. The result is his book Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. It’s a meticulous ethnography -- but his message is also simple: that addressing poverty in America should be refocused to the simple challenge of keeping a roof over people’s heads.
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