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1.謝倫娜向帕特裡斯索要了「雙重賠償損失」(double damages)。密爾沃基的房東有權對在驅逐命令到期後滯留的房客索討雙倍的日租金(威斯康星州法704.27)。這項規定的意圖在於:當遭到驅逐的租戶賴著不走,妨礙房東重新出租時,可以彌補損失的房租收入。謝倫娜一般不會這麼做,但在帕特裡斯那兒她破了例。為什麼?「因為她把我們和解的路子堵死了!她太會耍嘴皮子了。」謝倫娜說。

2.參見Elliot Liebow,Tally』s Corner:A Study of Negro Streetcorner Men(Boston:Little,Brown and Company,1967),63。由於居住條件差而可能引起的疾患包括氣喘、鉛中毒、呼吸系統併發症、發展遲緩、心臟病和神經系統失調。某知名的醫療期刊繼而將不合格的屋況稱作是「公共衛生危機」。只要在糟糕的房子裡住上一段時間,就有可能對身體健康造成持久的負面影響,這對孩子來說尤甚。關於住房和健康之間的關聯,參見Samiya Bashir,「Home Is Where the Harm Is:Inadequate Housing as a Public Health Crisis,」American Journal of Public Health 92(2002):733-38;Gary Evans,Nancy Wells,and Annie Moch,「Housing and Mental Health:A Review of the Evidence and a Methodological and Conceptual Critique,」Journal of Social Issues 59(2003):475-500;James Krieger and Donna Higgins,「Housing and Health:Time Again for Public Health Action,」American Journal of Public Health 92(2002):758-68;Wayne Morgan et al.,「Results of a Home-Based Environmental Intervention among Urban Children with Asthma,」New England Journal of Medicine 351(2004):1068-80;Joshua Sharfstein et al.,「Is Child Health at Risk While Families Wait for Housing Vouchers?」American Journal of Public Health 91(2001):1191-192。

3.Lee Rainwater,Behind Ghetto Walls:Black Family Life in a Federal Slum(Chicago:Aldine,1970),476.

4.Robert Sampson,Great American City:Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect(Chicago:University of Chicago Press,2012);Patrick Sharkey,Stuck in Place:Urban Neighborhoods and the End of Progress toward Racial Equality(Chicago:University of Chicago Press,2013).

5.Julie Clark and Ade Kearns,「Housing Improvements,Perceived Housing Quality and Psychosocial Benefits from the Home,」Housing Studies 27(2012):915-39;James Dunn and Michael Hayes,「Social Inequality,Population Health,and Housing:A Study of Two Vancouver Neighborhoods,」Social Science and Medicine 51(2000):563-87.關於地域歧視,參見Loic Wacquant,Urban Outcasts:A Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality(Malden,MA:Polity Press,2008),chapter 6。