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WINNER OF THE 2017 PULITZER PRIZE GENERAL NON-FICTION
From Harvard sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond, a landmark work of scholarship and reportage that will forever change the way we look at poverty in America
In this brilliant, heartbreaking book, Matthew Desmond takes us into the poorest neighborhoods of Milwaukee to tell the story of eight families on the edge. Arleen is a single mother trying to raise her two sons on the $20 a month she has left after paying for their rundown apartment. Scott is a gentle nurse consumed by a heroin addiction. Lamar, a man with no legs and a neighborhood full of boys to look after, tries to work his way out of debt. Vanetta participates in a botched stickup after her hours are cut. All are spending almost everything they have on rent, and all have fallen behind.
The fates of these families are in the hands of two landlords: Sherrena Tarver, a former schoolteacher turned inner-city entrepreneur, and Tobin Charney, who runs one of the worst trailer parks in Milwaukee. They loathe some of their tenants and are fond of others, but as Sherrena puts it, “Love don’t pay the bills.” She moves to evict Arleen and her boys a few days before Christmas.
Even in the most desolate areas of American cities, evictions used to be rare. But today, most poor renting families are spending more than half of their income on housing, and eviction has become ordinary, especially for single mothers. In vivid, intimate prose, Desmond provides a ground-level view of one of the most urgent issues facing America today. As we see families forced into shelters, squalid apartments, or more dangerous neighborhoods, we bear witness to the human cost of America’s vast inequality—and to people’s determination and intelligence in the face of hardship.
Based on years of embedded fieldwork and painstakingly gathered data, this masterful book transforms our understanding of extreme poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving a devastating, uniquely American problem. Its unforgettable scenes of hope and loss remind us of the centrality of home, without which nothing else is possible.
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Domestic Politics, non-fiction, 2008 financial crisis, low-income housing, eviction, poverty, profit, cities and towns, social science, urban sociology, poverty and homelessness, extreme poverty, affordable housing, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Poor, housing, Cities and towns, united states, nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-nonfiction=2016-03-20, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, Sociology, Urban, Public Housing, Poverty Areas, Homeless Persons, Poverty & Homelessness, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Public Policy, General, Stadt, Armut, Miete, Schulden, Räumungsvollstreckung, Ausgrenzung, Landlord and tenant, COMMUNAUTÉS LOCALES + GROUPES LIÉS À UN LIEU + SOCIOLOGIE URBAINE, Fre, GHETTOS + ZONES DE SÉGRÉGATION, MILWAUKEE, MISÈRE FINANCIÈRE ET PAUVRETÉ, POLITIQUE DU LOGEMENT, QUARTIERS MISÉREUX + TAUDIS, SANS-ABRI + VAGABONDAGE, ÉTATS-UNIS D'AMÉRIQUE, USA, Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer, Pauvres, Logement, Expulsion (Droit), Pauvreté, Villes, Logement social, Housing projects, Case studies, Social conditions, Economic conditions, Economic history, Low-income housing, Eviction, Poverty, Profit, Cities and towns, Domestic politics, Non-fiction, Social science, Urban sociology, Poverty and homelessness, Extreme poverty, Affordable housing, Social science / poverty & homelessness, Political science / public policy / general, Social science / sociology / urban, Nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-nonfiction=2016-03-20, New york times bestseller, New york times reviewedPeople
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City is a 2016 non-fiction book by American author Matthew Desmond. Set in the poorest areas of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the book follows eight families struggling to pay rent to their landlords during the financial crisis of 2007–2008. Through a year of ethnographic fieldwork, Desmond's goal in the book is to highlight the issues of extreme poverty, affordable housing, and economic exploitation in the United States.
Evicted was well-received and won multiple book awards such as the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. The Pulitzer committee selected the book "for a deeply researched exposé that showed how mass evictions after the 2008 economic crash were less a consequence than a cause of poverty."
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