How Evictions Haunt Thousands of Black Pennsylvanians
By Jessica Washington A brightly colored eviction notice plastered on the door frame is an image most of us can easily conjure. But what happens after the bags are packed, and all that remains from the place you once called home is a scarlet E on your record? A recent report from Policy Link, a non-profit research group, is shedding light on the aftermath of evictions in Pennsylvania. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, hundreds of thousands of evictions have been filed in the Commonwealth. And just in the last year, 114,000 evictions were filed in Pennsylvania, a disproportionate number of which The post How Evictions Haunt Thousands of Black Pennsylvanians appeared first on HBCU News.
By Jessica Washington A brightly colored eviction notice plastered on the door frame is an image most of us can easily conjure. But what happens after the bags are packed, and all that remains from the place you once called home is a scarlet E on your record? A recent report from Policy Link, a non-profit research group, is shedding light on the aftermath of evictions in Pennsylvania. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, hundreds of thousands of evictions have been filed in the Commonwealth. And just in the last year, 114,000 evictions were filed in Pennsylvania, a disproportionate number of which
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