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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Matthew Desmond |
ISBN: | 9780553447453 0553447459 |
OCLC Number: | 978257056 |
Notes: | Includes Reader's guide. |
Awards: | Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, 2017 The Pulitzer Prize, 2017 |
Description: | xviii, 422 pages ; 21 cm |
Contents: | Prologue: Cold city -- Part One. Rent. The business of owning the city ; Making rent ; Hot water ; A beautiful collection ; Thirteenth Street ; Rat hole ; The sick ; Christmas in Room 400 -- Part Two. Out. Order some carryout ; Hypes for hire ; The 'hood is good ; Disposable ties ; E-24 ; High tolerance ; A nuisance ; Ashes on snow -- Part Three. After. 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 -- Epilogue: Home and hope -- About this project. |
Other Titles: | Poverty and profit in the American city |
Responsibility: | Matthew Desmond. |
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Abstract:
"In this powerful work of narrative nonfiction, Desmond documents the months he spent living alongside tenants and landlords in Milwaukee, exploring the issues of poverty and homelessness in a segregated city. Taking readers on a journey into the daily lives of families facing eviction, sometimes repeatedly, the author creates a compelling and heartbreaking work that leaves readers wondering how we got here and what we can do to help."--
"In Evicted, Harvard sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" 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. Its unforgettable scenes of hope and loss remind us of the centrality of home, without which nothing else is possible."--

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- Low-income housing -- United States.
- Eviction -- United States.
- Poverty -- United States.
- Profit -- United States.
- Cities and towns -- United States.
- United States.
- Social science -- Sociology -- Urban.
- Social science -- Poverty and Homelessness.
- Housing.
- Poverty.
- Cities and towns.
- Eviction.
- Low-income housing.
- Profit.
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