Serial Filing: How Landlords Use the Threat of Eviction
Serial Filing: How Landlords Use the Threat of Eviction
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DOI：
10.1111/cico.12387
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发表时间：
2019-06-01
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影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Rosen, Eva
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作者：
Garboden, Philip M. E.;Rosen, Eva
虽然最近的研究表明了驱逐的频率和有害后果，但与受到驱逐威胁的贫困家庭的数量相比，执行驱逐的数量相形见绌。本文通过对巴尔的摩、达拉斯和克利夫兰 127 名随机抽样的房东和物业经理进行访谈，研究他们与驱逐相关的策略，重点关注驱逐的扩展过程，而不是离散的驱逐实例。我们发现，房东通常会试图避免代价高昂的驱逐，而是依靠一系列驱逐威胁。通过将租户重新定义为债务人，备案通过利用国家在物质上和象征性上支持房东收债来协助收租。与此同时，住房租户的小额欠款加剧了房东与租户关系中的权力失衡。它为房东提供了以任何理由驱逐租户的合法借口，并阻止租户行使其有关法规执行的合法权利。这些发现强调了检查房东和房客在居住期间不稳定且充满权力的关系的重要性。贫困家庭持续面临被驱逐的威胁，面临住房不安全、费用和法律制裁，对他们的家庭和社区意识产生负面影响。
While recent research has illustrated the frequency and deleterious consequences of eviction, the number of executed evictions pales in comparison to the number of poor families threatened with eviction. This paper uses interviews with 127 randomly sampled landlords and property managers in Baltimore, Dallas, and Cleveland to examine their strategies related to eviction, with a focus on the extended process of evicting rather than the discrete instance of eviction. We find that landlords generally try to avoid costly evictions, instead relying on the serial threat of eviction. By redefining renters as debtors, filing assists in rent collection by leveraging the state to materially and symbolically support the landlord's debt collection. At the same time, housing tenants in small amounts of arrearage aggravates the power imbalance within the landlord-tenant relationship. It gives landlords the legal pretext to remove a tenant for any reason and prevents tenants from exercising their legal rights regarding code enforcement. These findings emphasize the importance of examining the precarious and power-laden relationship of landlords and tenants while they are still in residence. Poor families live under constant threat of eviction, facing housing insecurity, fees, and legal sanction, with negative impacts for their sense of home and community.