{"id":129160,"date":"2024-09-09T14:25:50","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T18:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=129160"},"modified":"2024-09-16T15:39:01","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T19:39:01","slug":"evictions-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/evictions-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Evictions in the US Rise Because There Is No Solidarity Anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What does community have to do with evictions? How has renter solidarity changed since the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/great-depression-and-the-new-deal\/\">Great Depression<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Matthew Desmond, sociologist and the author of <em>Evicted, <\/em>says that a primary reason why evictions in the US are rising is that renters don&#8217;t stand up for each other anymore. Renters are allowing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/predatory-landlords\/\">predatory landlords<\/a> to walk all over them in fear of losing housing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s a look at how renter solidarity has changed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-evictions-in-america\"><strong>Evictions in America<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>One reason Desmond gives for evictions in the US happening so frequently is that renters no longer stand up for each other.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He explains that <strong>even during the Great Depression, evictions were relatively rare because renters responded to them with large-scale protests. <\/strong>Renters would organize to protect each other because they had a sense of solidarity toward one another. That solidarity stemmed from feelings of shared ownership in their neighborhoods and homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: A sense of community between renters has more benefits than just protection from predatory landlords: Those connections also provide much-needed emotional and mental health support. For example, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/app\/book\/lost-connections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Lost Connections<\/em><\/a>, journalist Johann Hari describes how residents of a West Berlin neighborhood called Kotti <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/app\/book\/lost-connections\/part-3-chapter-7#case-study-the-kotti-neighborhood-protest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">came together to protest increasing rents<\/a> and protect an elderly woman who was about to be evicted. Crucially, in doing so, the residents of Kotti realized that they were <em>all <\/em>struggling for the same reasons; the problem was systemic, not individual. Therefore, even after the protest ended, members of the Kotti community continued to support each other however they could, helping each other to survive their shared problems.)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By contrast, Desmond says that many people today\u2014even those in low-income households\u2014consider poverty and eviction to be the rightful consequences of personal failings such as laziness or bad decisions. In other words, <strong>people blame individuals (including themselves) for their problems, instead of recognizing the systemic failures that trap people in bad situations.<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Along with overlooking the systemic problems keeping them in poverty, many renters now view landlords in a positive light: They\u2019re just grateful to have housing, rather than angry about being exploited by predatory renting practices. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The author adds that renter solidarity has also fallen apart because <strong>low-income renters are now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/always-busy\/\">too busy<\/a> with their day-to-day problems to fight back against the root causes of those problems.<\/strong> For instance, someone who has to work two or three jobs just to survive probably won\u2019t have the energy to protest for higher wages, even though better pay would allow them to work less and live more comfortably.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Theories of Personal Responsibility<\/strong><br><br>Desmond says that low-income renters don\u2019t work together anymore because they\u2019ve shifted the blame from systemic problems to individual failures. This implies that the recent spike in evictions in the US is due, at least in part, to this increased focus on personal responsibility. However, the belief that individuals should take full responsibility for their own lives\u2014instead of blaming their problems on outside forces\u2014goes back much farther than that.<br><br>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalhistory.uh.edu\/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&amp;psid=1334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">1928 campaign speech<\/a>, US presidential candidate Herbert Hoover asserted that self-reliance and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/personal-accountability\/\">personal accountability<\/a> had been fundamental parts of US culture since the nation\u2019s founding, and coined the term \u201crugged individualism\u201d to describe that culture. Rugged individualism emphasizes that America is a land of equal opportunity for everyone, where each person can succeed through their own hard work, independent of external aid.&nbsp;<br><br>As such, rugged individualists advocate for personal freedom and individual responsibility, with minimal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/government-intervention\/\">government intervention<\/a> in people\u2019s lives or the economy. When everyone has the opportunity to earn money and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/freedom-to-choose\/\">freedom to choose<\/a> how they live, those who work hard and make good decisions will naturally become wealthy. This also means that people living in poverty are to blame for their own hardships and have the ability to solve their own problems, so they don\u2019t deserve outside assistance. Furthermore, any such assistance would have to be funded by taxes, meaning that people who worked harder or made better choices would be forced to finance poor people\u2019s lifestyles.<br><br>An even older approach, drawn from the ancient Greco-Roman philosophy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/Stoicism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Stoicism<\/a>, makes a point of separating <em>blame <\/em>from <em>responsibility<\/em>. For instance, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/app\/book\/the-subtle-art-of-not-giving-a-f-ck\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck<\/em><\/a>, Mark Manson writes that people can be in bad situations through no fault of their own. However, how they deal with those situations is still <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/app\/book\/the-subtle-art-of-not-giving-a-f-ck\/chapter-5#youre-always-making-choices\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">their choice and their responsibility<\/a>. Therefore, a low-income renter could believe that there are powerful social and economic forces working against them, but still recognize that overcoming those hardships is up to them personally; it\u2019s nobody else\u2019s responsibility to help them solve their problems.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does community have to do with evictions? How has renter solidarity changed since the Great Depression? Matthew Desmond, sociologist and the author of Evicted, says that a primary reason why evictions in the US are rising is that renters don&#8217;t stand up for each other anymore. 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