Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
In Evicted, Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each 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 twenty-first-century America’s most devastating problems.
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Well-written, well-researched, depressing. Recommend, but not around any holidays (with the exception of Halloween...)
As someone who has lived in this country for a short period of time, it is a great book to learn about the problems that people here experience in some sectors of the population. I think that without this reading, I would not have been able to learn about these issues. And now that I live here, I think it is necessary to learn about this. I am grateful to have read it, even though it felt somewhat raw and very sad.
Definitely worth the read. It’s told with stories so it’s an enjoyable read but you still learn about all sorts of facts and figures. It opened my eyes to the obstacles and barriers that we make impossible for those in poverty to overcome. I will not look at inner city neighborhoods or trailer parks the same way again. Already thinking of ways to try and help this problem in my own city. I only wish I had actually read this when I was a landlord.
Well investigated, well researched, well written account of the growing inequities of income and housing in America. This should be required reading for high school students, especially those fortunate enough (such as myself) to have never known what it's like to wonder where your next meal is coming from and where you'll be sleeping tonight.
As someone who was actually living in Milwaukee at the time this book takes place - I would HIGHLY recommend it. Milwaukee is a city with such amazing potential, yet such horrible poverty and segregation. This book follows a few families over the course of a year and details their struggles in some of the most segregated Milwaukee neighborhoods (African American north side, Hispanic near south side & poor white far south side)
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