Doctoral Dissertaion Research: The Dynamics of Eviction in the Inner-City Housing Market.

SES- 0802634Mustafa EmirbayerMatthew desmond威斯康星大学？驱逐过程实际上被城市贫困学者所忽视，但对于推进关于城市内部贫困再生产的社会科学知识具有战略价值。通过研究驱逐，人们可以获得一个独特的视角来研究(1)低收入住房市场的动态加剧长期贫困状况的方式，(2)经历危机的穷人对其社会网络的依赖程度，以及(3)内城的文化动态如何加剧贫困状况。为了分析一些驱逐的原因，动态和后果，本研究将追求以下研究问题。首先，房东如何决定驱逐谁，对谁宽大处理？第二，驱逐过程中的不同行为者如何相互理解和互动？第三，租户内部的资源密度、结构和数量如何？社交网络是否会影响她或他被驱逐的可能性？第四，租户对驱逐有何反应？最后，强迫迁移的主要后果是什么？本研究以密尔沃基市中心为研究背景，采用定量与定性相结合的方法。在进行了20次访谈（10次与房东和10次与被驱逐的租户进行访谈）以了解内城住房市场和驱逐动态之后，联合pi将开始对驱逐过程进行人种学研究，并对密尔沃基进行调查。美国最穷的租房者。研究人员将对面临驱逐的五名房东和五名房客进行为期十个月的人种学研究，此外还将研究驱逐过程中涉及的一系列行为者（例如，被驱逐的房客、未被驱逐的房客、房东、律师）。此外，研究人员与威斯康星大学调查中心合作，将收集居住在密尔沃基的租户的1000份调查（大约100个项目）。美国低成本住房部门。该调查将收集有关租户的数据。人口统计属性和观点，驱逐经验，住房条件，居住流动性，社会网络，收入和物质困难。更广泛的影响：这项研究？调查结果将通过各种途径（如文章和书籍出版物、政策简报、学术会议、公共论坛）分发给多种受众（如社会科学家、决策者、社区组织者、租户和房东）。重要的是，这项研究将产生科学发现，这将引起政策制定者试图起草有效和公平的住房倡议的兴趣。首先，因为驱逐的一个后果是无家可归，这项研究将帮助我们更好地理解人们无家可归的机制。其次，通过探索房东和管理者如何驱逐和普遍对待租户，它将有助于政策制定者更好地了解他们如何提高低成本公寓楼的管理问责制。第三，通过调查租户了解和行使其权利的程度，以及房东遵守其法律责任的程度，本研究将帮助政策制定者确定他们可以提高公众对驱逐权利的认识的方法。第四，因为这项研究将确定歧视对驱逐决定的影响程度，它将为旨在确保住房机会平等的计划和政策提供信息。最后，这项研究将为政策制定者起草专门与驱逐有关的法律提供信息。

SES- 0802634Mustafa EmirbayerMatthew DesmondUniversity of Wisconsin?Madison The process of eviction has virtually been ignored by urban poverty scholars but holds strategic value for advancing social-scientific knowledge of the reproduction of inner-city poverty. By studying eviction, one can obtain a unique perspective into (1) the ways in which the dynamics of the low-income housing market exacerbate conditions of chronic poverty, (2) the degree to which poor people experiencing a crisis rely on their social networks, and (3) how cultural dynamics of the inner city reinforce conditions of poverty. To analyze some of the causes, dynamics, and consequences of eviction, this study will pursue the following research questions. First, how do landlords decide whom to evict and to whom to show leniency? Second, how do different actors in the eviction process understand and interact with one another? Third, how does the density, structure, and amount of resources found within a tenant?s social network affect her or his likelihood of being evicted? Fourth, how do tenants respond to an eviction? Finally, what are the major consequences of forced removal? Set in inner-city Milwaukee, this study will employ both quantitative and qualitative methods. After conducting twenty interviews, ten with landlords and ten with tenants who have been evicted, to understand the inner-city housing market and the dynamics of eviction, the co-PI will begin an ethnographic study of the process of eviction as well as a survey of Milwaukee?s poorest renters. The researcher will conduct a ten-month ethnographic study of five landlords and five tenants facing eviction, researching, additionally, the array of actors involved in the eviction process (e.g., evicted tenants, non-evicted tenants, landlords, lawyers). Additionally, the researcher, in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin Survey Center, will collect 1,000 surveys (with approximately 100 items) of tenants living in Milwaukee?s low-cost housing sector. The survey will gather data on tenants? demographic attributes and opinions, experiences with eviction, housing conditions, residential mobility, social networks, income, and material hardship.Broader Impact: This study?s findings will be disseminated to multiple audiences (e.g., social scientists, policy makers, community organizers, tenants and landlords) and through various avenues (e.g., article and book publications, policy briefs, academic conferences, public forums). Importantly, this study will generate scientific findings that will interest policy makers attempting to draft effective and fair housing initiatives. First, because one consequence of eviction is homelessness, this study will help us better understand a mechanism by which people become homeless. Second, by exploring how landlords and managers evict and generally treat tenants, it will help policy makers better understand how they can improve management accountability in low-cost apartment complexes. Third, by investigating the extent to which tenants know and apply their rights, as well as the extent to which landlords abide by their legal responsibilities, this study will help policy makers identify ways they might increase public awareness of rights pertaining to eviction. Fourth, because this study will determine the extent to which discrimination influences the eviction decision, it will inform programs and policies designed to ensure equal opportunity in housing. Finally, this study will inform policy makers drafting laws specifically pertaining to eviction.