Collected Item: “Housing Instability”
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Housing Instability
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tweet/text story
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This article discusses the way that housing instability has begun to disproportionately affect black people during COVID. Black people typically face a myriad of intersectional issues that come from a lack of resources or economic support. As people were being laid off at the start of COVID black people of course were disproportionately more affected which in turn can be seen in a lack of stable housing. This in turn serves to make black people more susceptible to catching and being more affected by the conditions created by the pandemic. Housing is an important issue that leads to other things like health and safety. This leads to cyclical poverty which is only made worse by racial positionality and the pandemic.
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https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-news/covid-19-exposes-the-black-communitys-long-history-of-housing-instability/AHJFTOZNDBGJBH2QPMWMS5NQOA/
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AJC
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2021-02-27