Eviction

The Monster Named Eviction Every year, millions of families are involuntarily moved from their homes to other, less fitting houses. They lose their homes so often, that moving often is simply just apart of their lives. Author Matthew Desmond illustrates this terrible occurrence in the book Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. In the once large city of Milwaukee, Desmond visits eight different families for over a year to capture the struggles of finding any housing in their lives.…

fair housing, landlord-tenant, special education, and immigration and naturalization. Pro bono work – volunteer legal services program in San Francisco – operates the homeless Advocacy Project, which addresses federal disability benefits advocacy, eviction defense in emergency situations, and immigration documentation. The Law Center in Contra Costa County – matches local pro bono attorneys with clients who do not qualify for assistance through existing service providers and who cannot afford…

Trail of Tears is a gruesome event that involved the forceful eviction of the native Indians in there ancestral homes to designated areas. The arrival of the whites in America meant that the local communities suffered so much in terms of forced labor and places of occupation. The Native Americans initially lived in Florida, North Carolina, and Alabama. The whites forced the native Americans to move across the Mississippi river a journey that was described as the Trail of Tears. To the Whites who…

The eviction was the last scene in the movie, but it was just an important as any other pivotal scene. In this scene, the men have gone hunting while the women have returned to the picket line. While hunting, Ramon begins to ponder on the argument that he had with his wife the night before, and everything that she specified. As he is walking he remembers a key piece that Esperanza said. She stated that she didn’t believe that they, the women and the miners, were getting weaker, but rather…

intention of the film was to demonstrate how Chicana/o families are occasionally threatened. When they are faced with situations that they do not agree or cannot imagine happening in their families such as teenage pregnancy, a homosexual love triangle, eviction, and a broken family. I believe the intention of the film was fulfilled because it painted a picture that many individuals can relate too regardless of his/her race or gender. Since the film was an independent film, it expressed a more…

Procedural History Echo sued Conway bank for constructive eviction, partial actual eviction, breach of the covenant of quiet enjoyment and of the lease. The superior court ruled against each claim. Echo appealed, stating that the court made several errors. These errors include: confusing constructive eviction and partial actual eviction, that locking the front doors was not partial actual eviction, finding there was no constructive eviction, and using the wrong legal test when determining…

Desmond explores the frequency and consequences of eviction in the lives of the urban poor. A quantitative analysis of administrative and survey data finds that eviction is ordinary in black neighborhoods, and women from those neighborhoods are evicted at higher rates than men. A qualitative analysis of Desmond’s ethnographic data reveal multiple components impelling his stated discrepancies between tenants and their landlords regarding evictions. One of the main findings of the research is that…

In 2007, the World Bank funded The Natural Resource Management Project for better management of water and forest resources in the Cherangany Hills area of Kenya (The World Bank Group, 2015, para. 1). The negative outcome was the aggressive eviction of thousands of people from their homes and the aftermath for those families. Initially the residents welcomed the initiative, because one part of the proposed project would lead to their rights to their lands being better acknowledged, but that…

Author’s family has an experience of being evicted. Everyone asks about how the poor person's struggle to make ends meet without asking why their bills are so high or where their money is flowing. He comes out asking the question of “How prominent is an eviction?” “What are its consequences?” “Who gets evicted?”. However, there is no database or information for all of these questions. He chooses to make his own data. He uses the old traditional way to move into Milwaukee to live with the people…

families are facing is eviction. This paper reviews this book from three aspects. The first part…