New Survey Spotlights Higher Eviction Rates of Black Women in Metro Detroit - WDET 101.9 FM

New survey spotlights higher eviction rates of Black women in metro Detroit - WDET 101.9 FM

A recent survey from a Detroit researcher has revealed that Black women disproportionately experience evictions in the city. Subscribe to the Detroit Evening Report on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, NPR.org or wherever you get your podcasts. 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…

More than half of Black women in metro Detroit survey have faced evictions

A survey of Black women in metro Detroit during the years since the COVID-19 pandemic found more than half of respondents reported experiencing an eviction in their lifetime. A research paper published May 14 by native Detroiter Shawnita Sealy-Jefferson sheds new light on the scale of evictions among Black women. As Sealy-Jefferson, a social epidemiologist, was researching the impact of evictions, mass incarceration, stress and tax foreclosures …

Why Evictions Make Black Women’s Health Worse - The Sacramento Observer

By Anissa Durham | Word In Black(WIB) – Legal or illegal, Black women are still the most likely to be evicted. And a new report found that Black women of reproductive age who have experienced eviction as adults or children reported poorer health outcomes.  We wanted to know why.  In a SECURE survey of more than 1,400 Black women in three different counties in Michigan, 50% had experienced a court-ordered or illegal eviction. The participants wer…