On this week's on the media, the final installment in our series on America's eviction crisis.

This one's about solutions.

We have a lack of affordable housing.

We have poverty. We have bad landlord-tenant laws.

We have that history of government-sponsored segregation.

It's just too cheap to file an eviction.

No one facing a life-altering judgment should ever have to endure that proceeding without the benefit of an attorney.

I did not want to be morally responsible for a failing school as an apartment owner.

That's not how we operate, and we will work with you to help you turn your school around.

They jointly set the standards for what they wanted in the community.

People who never before could get a decent roof over their heads.

We live here in reasonable comfort amid helpful, worthwhile surroundings.

Potential cures for a National Epidemic after this.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

Bob Garfield is away this week.

I'm Brooke Gladstone, with the fourth and final chapter in our series on American eviction, the Scarlet E.

We've been exploring the wise and wherefores of eviction, the mechanics of it and the wreckage.

From the very beginning, sociologist Matt Desmond, author of Evicted, founder of the Eviction Lab at Princeton and My Virgil on this project,

waved me away from the big city stories that big city journalists tend to fixate on.

For me, anyways, like, the reporting on this story is stuck in a bit of a rut.

Gee, it's really expensive to live in fill in the blank.

Yes, but what else?

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