“Evicted” and the Growing Rental Crisis
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2016
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Rising rents and flat-lined incomes are driving people from their homes at a record rate. But this “eviction epidemic” goes largely unnoticed. We’ll talk with the author of a new book about the Eviction Industrial Complex -- and what being kicked out by a landlord does to a family.
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| 0:00.0 | Podcast. |
| 0:03.1 | Listen to the organist, the culturally omnivorous, intellectually ravenous podcast from the editors of the Believer magazine. |
| 0:10.0 | Part of poetry is learning how to speak. |
| 0:13.6 | Chili Billy. I am also a horse. |
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| 0:22.5 | The right reading for this is the one I'm giving it. |
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| 0:30.5 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point. |
| 0:38.9 | Kicked out in America. |
| 0:44.3 | I'm Barbara Bogave, sitting in for Warren Allney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International. |
| 0:49.4 | Rising rents and flatlined incomes are driving people from their homes at a record rate. |
| 0:54.1 | One in four |
| 0:54.7 | low-income families now spend 70% of their income just on keeping a roof over their heads. All it |
| 1:00.7 | takes is a small medical bill or a broken down car and they're on the street, helped out the door |
| 1:05.5 | by a thriving private industry built around eviction services and a court system biased towards |
| 1:10.6 | landlords. The eviction industrial and a court system biased towards landlords. |
| 1:11.6 | The eviction industrial complex coming up. |
| 1:14.7 | And on today's talking point, privatization isn't just driving evictions. |
| 1:18.6 | It may well be dispatching your next ambulance or fire truck. |
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