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"There are other ways, there are cheaper and quicker ways," to get tenants out of a unit than formal eviction, he said. During reserach for his book, he encountered landlords in the Midwest who would simply remove the front door of an apartment unit when they wanted someone out, or even cut off the electricity and place an anonymous call to city officials who would then inspect the unit and determine it uninhabitable. Threats often work too.

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ViralAg said:

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It's not legal.

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And they tended to overlap with areas that were largely African American or Hispanic. The more than 4,500 evictions in the 77090 zip code come from can area that is 49 percent black and 30 percent Hispanic.

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