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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City is a 2016 nonfiction book by American sociologist Matthew Desmond.Set in the poorest areas of Milwaukee, Wisconsin during the 2007–2008 financial crisis and its immediate aftermath, the book follows eight families struggling to pay rent to their landlords, many of whom face eviction.
Matthew Desmond's 'Evicted' changed the conversation about housing insecurity. He explains why his new book, 'Poverty, by America,' is even more ambitious.
Desmond's initial celebrity came from his best-selling 2016 book, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, which was excerpted in The New Yorker. The book argues that eviction is a major ...
Matthew Desmond is a sociologist and the Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology at Princeton University, where he is also the principal investigator of the Eviction Lab. [2] [3] Desmond was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2022. [4] He was formerly the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard ...
“The face of the eviction epidemic is moms and kids, especially poor moms from predominantly Latino and African American neighborhoods,” Desmond told The Atlantic back in 2016, noting that ...
The eviction process is also tied to long-term psychological issues for tenants and their children. [1] In a longitudinal study on eviction, Matthew Desmond found that evicted adults were more likely to report poor mental health both one year and eight years following their eviction. [74]
Families evicted to make way for dams, power plants or other big projects must be resettled and their livelihoods restored. Key Findings Over the last decade, projects funded by the World Bank have physically or economically displaced an estimated 3.4 million people, forcing them from their homes, taking their land or damaging their livelihoods.
Eviction Lab founder Matthew Desmond, said evictions are to Black women what incarceration is to Black men. In his 2016 book, “Evicted,” Desmond wrote, “Poor Black men may be locked up, but ...