Overrepresentation Of Black Women In Eviction

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developing effective policy interventions. In understanding that black women experience the highest eviction, we can look at the historical and sociological reasons black women have always been a part of a disadvantaged group. One weakness of Desmond’s research is even though the data shows that black women are overrepresented in eviction records in proportion to their representation in the general population, there was no direct connection that it was the sole reason black women were evicted. Desmond suggests that other studies would need to be completed to provide evidence that extraneous or antecedent variables could possibly be factor to understand the overrepresentation of black women in the eviction process. To build further on Desmond’s

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