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poverty and profit in the American city

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An edition of Evicted (2016)

Evicted

poverty and profit in the American city

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by and

  • ★★★★ 4.3 (19 ratings) ·
  • 177 Want to read
  • 10 Currently reading
  • 30 Have read

In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Hailed 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. Its unforgettable scenes of hope and loss remind us of the centrality of home, without which nothing else is possible.

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Thorndike Press
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English
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687

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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 reviewed

People

Scott, Lamar, Vanetta, Sherrena Tarver, Tobin Charney, Arleen

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Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

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2008

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Table of Contents

Cold city
The business of owning the city
Making rent
Hot water
A beautiful collection
Thirteenth Street
Rat hole
The sick
Christmas in room 400
Order some carryout
Hypes for hire
The 'hood is good
Disposable ties
E-24
High tolerance
A nuisance
Ashes on snow
This is America
Lobster on food stamps
Little
Nobody wants the North Side
Bigheaded boy
If they give momma the punishment
The serenity club
Can't win for losing
Home and hope
About this project.

Edition Notes

Originally published: New York : Broadway Books, [2016]

Includes bibliographical references (page 519-675).

Published in
Farmington Hills, MI
Series
Thorndike Press large print core
Copyright Date
2017

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
339.4/60973
Library of Congress
HD7287.96.U6 D47 2017

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Format
Hardcover
Pagination
687 pages (large print)
Number of pages
687

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OL26935025M
Internet Archive
evictedpovertypr0000desm_d6s9
ISBN 10
1432843133
ISBN 13
9781432843137
LCCN
2017022624
OCLC/WorldCat
987212599
Goodreads
35197743

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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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