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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City is a 2016 nonfiction book by American sociologist Matthew Desmond. Set in the poorest areas of Milwaukee, Wisconsin during the 2007–2008 financial crisis and its immediate aftermath, the book follows eight families struggling to pay rent to their landlords, many of whom face eviction.
- Matthew Desmond
- 2016
A Pulitzer Prize-winning book that follows eight families in Milwaukee as they struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Based on years of research and reporting, Evicted reveals the devastating consequences of housing insecurity and economic exploitation in America.
Feb 10, 2022 · A book by Matthew Desmond that documents the lives of eight families facing eviction in Milwaukee. The book explores the issues of poverty, housing, and economic exploitation in a segregated city and won the Pulitzer Prize in 2017.
Hailed as “wrenching and revelatory” (The Nation), “vivid and unsettling” (New York Review of Books), Evicted transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving one of twenty-first-century America’s most devastating problems.
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- Matthew Desmond
- Broadway Books
Feb 28, 2017 · Hailed as “wrenching and revelatory” (The Nation), “vivid and unsettling” (New York Review of Books), Evicted transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving one of twenty-first-century America’s most devastating problems.
- Matthew Desmond
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- Broadway Books
Mar 1, 2016 · Hailed as “wrenching and revelatory” (The Nation), “vivid and unsettling” (New York Review of Books), Evicted transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exploitation while providing...
Mar 1, 2016 · Through both personal stories and data, Desmond proves that eviction undermines self, family, and community, bearing down disproportionately hard on women with children. In Milwaukee, being behind on rent gives landlords the opening to serve an eviction notice, which leads to a court date.
- Matthew Desmond
