Report: Blacks in Boston disproportionately face eviction
A new report says communities of color in Boston are disproportionately affected by evictions in the city, with some of the highest rates in Black communities. Seventy percent of market-rate eviction filings occur in neighborhoods where a majority of residents are people of color, though only about half of rental housing is in these neighborhoods, according to three years of data by MIT researchers and a housing justice organization that was released Sunday. The problem has only been exasperated
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