Many of these families were spending up to 80 percent of their income just on rent! This left little money for anything else. The reason I read it was because of my friend Shelby.

These stories are so unbelievable that they read like fiction.

These are both Caucasian and African American families. This book is about 8 families in Milwaukee. This just won The Pulitzer! Yay! 'Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City' is probably the most important book that I have ever read!!! If you are to read one non-fiction book this year it should probably be this book!!! This should be required reading in high school! I learned about poverty and poor renters, the eviction process, and scumbag landlords. He has been listed among the Politico 50, as one of “fifty people across the country who are most influencing the national political debate.” He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award, and is an elected member of the American Philosophical Society. It has been named one of the Best 50 Nonfiction Books of the Last 100 Years and was included in the 100 Best Social Policy Books of All Time.ĭesmond's research and reporting focuses on American poverty and public policy. 'Evicted' was listed as one of the Best Books of 2016 by The New York Times, New Yorker, Washington Post, National Public Radio, and several other outlets. He is also a Contributing Writer for The New York Times Magazine.ĭesmond is the author of over fifty academic studies and several books, including 'Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City,' which won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, National Book Critics Circle Award, Carnegie Medal, and PEN / John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction. During Professor of Sociology and the Director of the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Matthew Desmond is social scientist and urban ethnographer.

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