Can't even afford to die.
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| author | Brown, Mya |
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| contents | <p>Abstract</p> <p>Public housing enforcement systems frequently present resident debt as a static financial obligation resulting from tenant noncompliance. This paper demonstrates that, in practice, public housing arrears function as a dynamic, self-reinforcing debt mechanism driven by repayment agreement defaults, payment reallocation rules, and balance re-aging procedures.</p> <p>Through socio-technical analysis, this paper documents how residents who consistently pay rent and make substantial arrears payments can nonetheless experience balance regeneration, wherein near-zero arrears are reinstated to prior principal amounts following technical default triggers.</p> <p>The result is not resolution but perpetual indebtedness, sustained through administrative design rather than financial necessity. This paper further argues that such mechanisms produce predictable human outcomes: exhaustion, financial depletion, health deterioration, and ultimately disposability, while maintaining institutional plausibility and legal defensibility.</p> <p> </p> |
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| spellingShingle | Can't even afford to die. Brown, Mya <p>Abstract</p> <p>Public housing enforcement systems frequently present resident debt as a static financial obligation resulting from tenant noncompliance. This paper demonstrates that, in practice, public housing arrears function as a dynamic, self-reinforcing debt mechanism driven by repayment agreement defaults, payment reallocation rules, and balance re-aging procedures.</p> <p>Through socio-technical analysis, this paper documents how residents who consistently pay rent and make substantial arrears payments can nonetheless experience balance regeneration, wherein near-zero arrears are reinstated to prior principal amounts following technical default triggers.</p> <p>The result is not resolution but perpetual indebtedness, sustained through administrative design rather than financial necessity. This paper further argues that such mechanisms produce predictable human outcomes: exhaustion, financial depletion, health deterioration, and ultimately disposability, while maintaining institutional plausibility and legal defensibility.</p> <p> </p> |
| title | Can't even afford to die. |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18505613 |