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Bookmark or Share- Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City - amazon.comHailed 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.
- Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City - WikipediaEvicted: 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.
- Evicted by Matthew Desmond Plot Summary | LitChartsDuring a cold January in 2008, Arleen Bell and her sons Jori and Jafaris are evicted from their apartment. They move into a homeless shelter called the Lodge, then into a house on Milwaukee’s predominantly-black North Side, before being evicted again.
- Matthew Desmond’s ‘Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City’The burden of “Evicted,” Matthew Desmond’s astonishing book, is to show that the world Lamar inhabits is indeed hell, or as close an approximation as you are likely to find in a 21st-century...
- Evicted by Matthew DesmondIn Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads.
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