A recent survey from a Detroit researcher has revealed that Black women disproportionately experience evictions in the city.
Dr. Shawnita Sealy-Jefferson, a social epidemiologist at Ohio State University — and native Detroiter — surveyed nearly 1,500 Black women in Oakland, Wayne and Macomb counties for the Social Epidemiology to Combat Unjust Residential Evictions (SECURE) Study. She found that more than half of the women who said they experienced eviction were forced out of their homes illegally.
“That’s something official records don’t capture. We only know this because we asked Black women directly to share what they’ve been through,” Sealy-Jefferson shared on social media. “I personally spoke with 96% of the 1,400+ Black women who participated in SECURE Study and what they shared with me was absolutely devastating.”…