Evicted
Poverty and Profit in the American City
Matthew Desmond
In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Evicted transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving one of 21st-century America's most devastating problems. Its unforgettable sc...
Publish Date
2017-02-28T00:00:00.000Z
2017-02-28T00:00:00.000Z
First Published in 2016
Goodreads rating
4.46
ISBN
9780553447453
Recommendations
5
Recommendations
2017-12-31T00:00:00.000Z
https://www.facebook.com/barackobama/posts/10155532677446749Gave me a better sense of what it is like to be very poor in this country than anything else I have read. – source
2017-06-25T12:39:54.000Z
This is from Evicted, one of the most powerful books I've ever read. – source2020-08-04T14:41:26.000Z
The wave of national evictions that will happen over the next month is going to be devastating and the effects will be long-lasting. @just_shelter's book "Evicted" is worth your time. Here are my notes from when I first read it in 2017: – source