The Color of Debt: How Collection Suits Squeeze Black Neighborhoods - ProPublica
▻https://www.propublica.org/article/debt-collection-lawsuits-squeeze-black-neighborhoods
Yolonda Fountain Henderson, 50, was elected last spring as the city’s first black mayor.
On the screen was a list of every debt collection lawsuit against a resident of her city, at least 4,500 in just five years. Henderson asked to see her own street. On her block of 16 modest ranch-style homes, lawsuits had been filed against the occupants of eight. “That’s my neighbor across the street,” she said, pointing to one line on the screen.
And then she saw her own suit.
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super #enquête avec #photographie, #cartographie_interactive etc.
(toute ressemblance avec un roman de Norman Spinrad…)
