Milwaukee Residents: City and Welfare Cheque

milwaukee residents: Between 2009 and 2011, one in eight Milwaukee residents were forced from their homes by eviction or foreclosure, according to Rabble. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City tells their stories. Over 170,000 people, including 41 per cent of the city African-American and 32 per cent of the city Hispanic residents, are living in poverty. Written by Matthew Desmond, now a Harvard sociologist, the book follows eight families, Black and white, who struggle to keep a roof over their heads. After several short stays in apartments across the inner city, she finds a duplex unit for $550 a month, 88 per cent of her welfare cheque. The reader meets Arleen and her two boys, Jori and Jafaris, after their rented house is condemned as "unfit for human habitation" by the city. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.