Systematic review: Evictions haunt families, harm children’s health

Harvard Medical School student Bruce Ramphal grew up in the bustle and blight of a five-story Bronx apartment building where, from an early age, he saw and heard about neighbors and friends losing their homes. Evictions were a part of life there—a block from the frenetic Grand Concourse thoroughfare and a stone’s throw from a police station nicknamed the Alamo.