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“We make the community by defending it:” neighborhood resists eviction of homeless people by local nonprofit board and business owners (itsgoingdown.org)
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Calling police on people that don’t have a house is a violent act to those seeking shelter in the community they belong to. More than 70% of Ypsi residents are renters and close to 80% of those rentals are owned by slumlord Stewart Beal. Nearly half of the black community in Ypsi is defined as living below the poverty line.

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