Gloria Rhodes, 64, watches as employees of Eagle Moving and Storage Company remove the furniture and belongings from the apartment she shared with her daughter, Ara Sparkman in Milwaukee, Wis., in February 2010. Here and in swaths of many cities, evictions from rental properties are so common that they are part of the texture of life. But new research is showing that eviction is a particular burden on low-income black women, often single mothers, who are more likely than men to rent apartments and more vulnerable to losing them, in part because their wages or welfare payments have not risen with the cost of housing. And evictions can easily throw families into cascades of turmoil and debt. (Sally Ryan/The New York Times)(SALLY RYAN/NYT)
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