Matthew Desmond is Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. Based on years of embedded fieldwork and painstakingly gathered data, Desmond transforms our understanding of extreme poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving a devastating, uniquely American problem. In this lecture, based on his Pulitzer Prize-winning book Evicted, Matthew Desmond tells the story of eight families in Milwaukee as they struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Eviction has become routine-part of a vicious cycle that deepens our country’s vast inequality. But today, most poor renting families spend more than half of their income on housing. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (November 28, 2017)Įven in the most desolate areas of American cities, evictions used to be rare.
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