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2 months ago
FOX13 Memphis
“Evicted,” an exhibit at the Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library aims to shed light on the eviction crisis in the Mid-South and the entire country. FOX13′s reporter Jack Bilyeu spoke to a mother at the exhibition who said she and her daughters are fighting eviction right now. Lashea Israel said she and her daughters were evicted from their Castalia apartment just two months ago. According to those statistics, one in five evicted tenants are black women, and tenants with legal counsel are two and a half times more likely to have their eviction settled or dismissed. Researchers at Princeton University’s “Eviction Lab” report nearly 50,000 evictions have been filed in Memphis since Mar.
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