Evicted

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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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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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Other Editions

• Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American CityPaperbackBroadway Books2017-01-01
• EvictedHardcoverCrown Publishers2016-01-01
• EvictedPenguin Books, Limited2016-01-01
• Poverty and profit in the American cityHardcoverAllen Lane2016-01-01
• Evictedaudible audiobookAudible2016-03-01
• Qu li, wo di she hui xue jia de ju zhu zhi ji bao gaoShi bao wen hua chu ban qi ye gu fen you xian gong si2017-01-01