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increases in neighborhood poverty and crime rates.10 Eviction is a significant racial justice issue, in that it disproportionately affects African-American families, especially those headed by single mothers. Eviction is also disproportionately experienced by people with disabilities, immigrants, and other disadvantaged populations.11 Further,

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purchases a group health insurance plan, sets up a 401k. Whether the workers organize themselves or the platform is owned by some enterprise, now the workers have more protection. And the fact that it’s a potentially national scale company or cooperative that’s going to do that makes it economically feasible in a

proceedings, they tend to do so pro se. Surveys of the rates at which litigants are unrepresented in “routine” but critically important proceedings involving child support, custody, domestic violence, evictions, foreclosures, collections, and more, show that individuals appear pro se from 20% to nearly 100% of the time.

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HARVEY RISHIKOF. 4200 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, #408 . Washington, DC 20016-5550. H (202) 537-0956 — C (202) 288-2013. E-mail: rishikofh@me.com. Temple Law School, Philadelphia, PA 2018 to present

JANE B. BARON . Temple University Beasley School of Law . 1719 N. Broad Street . Philadelphia, Pa. 19122 (215) 204-8975 . Jane.Baron@temple.edu . EDUCATION

1“Legal” evictions, as used here, are evictions those that go through the judicial process; Philadelphia has many illegal evictions, also known as illegal lockouts, as well. 2According to the Mayor’s Task Force report, the 54% figure is based on a review of five years of landlord-tenant dockets, from 1/1/2015 through 12/31/2016.