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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448 pages

Average rating: 8.11

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Anonymous
Dec 28, 2023
10/10 stars
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.
erinmarie0903
Nov 28, 2023
10/10 stars
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)
E Clou
May 10, 2023
8/10 stars
I wish the author had put the "About This Project" at the beginning of the book, and I recommend that if you read this book you start with that section. When I began the book I had the expectation that the book would have a lot of history, politics, policy, with some personal examples, as many nonfiction books focusing on a particular legal or policy issue typically do. This book is not like that, it's an ethnography. It is more of a biography of...read more
alissamv
Jan 28, 2023
7/10 stars
This book was very insightful on how broken the system is. I commend Matthew for immersing himself in the environment for so long. It was a slow start for me and sometimes the stats left my mind wandering elsewhere but overall a decent book and I would recommend if for no other reason than to shine light on this issue.
Anonymous
Jan 02, 2023
8/10 stars
Excellent book that tells a story, provides context, offers solutions, and explains its methodology. A home run.

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