"Ultimately, they find consistent evidence that the poor, and especially the minority poor, experience the highest rates of housing exploitation. In their most basic formulations, they (Princeton’s Matthew Desmond—who wrote the award-winning 2016 book Evicted—and MIT’s Nathan Wilmers) find that renters in high-poverty neighborhoods experience levels of exploitation that are more than double those of renters in neighborhoods with lower levels of poverty." ... See MoreSee Less

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"Healing Homes is a transitional housing program. It allows an individual who is approved to participate in the program to have a license to occupy a RWJUH Somerset-owned residential home with his/her immediate family for the duration of their participation in the Program, not to exceed 24 months...In addition to temporary housing, each program participant will be assigned to a social worker who will work with them to assess their clinical and social service needs, and provide ongoing training and support including assistance with transportation, financial counseling, mental health services and permanent housing." ... See MoreSee Less

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"About 40 percent of the District’s lower-income neighborhoods experienced gentrification between 2000 and 2013, giving the city the greatest “intensity of gentrification” of any in the country, according to a study released Tuesday by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition." ... See MoreSee Less

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"Newark, NJ had the nation’s highest price growth, rising 12.2% since last year to $330,000." ... See MoreSee Less

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"...Oregon became the first state in the U.S. to implement universal rent control. Senate Bill 608, signed in to law by Governor Kate Brown, will restrict annual rent increases to 7 percent and ban what are known as “no-cause” evictions, in an attempt to provide immediate, widespread relief to the state’s rent-burdened households." ... See MoreSee Less

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