Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - KIRKUS PRIZE FOR NONFICTION FINALIST - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by The New York Times Book Review • The Boston Globe • The Washington Post • NPR • Bloomberg • Esquire • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • Politico • Bookpage • Kirkus Reviews • Amazon • Barnes and Noble Review • Apple • Library Journal • Publishers Weekly • Shelf AwarenessFrom Harvard sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond, a landmark work of scholarship and reportage that will forever change the way we look at poverty in America In this brilliant, heartbreaking book, Matthew Desmond takes us into the poorest neighborhoods of Milwaukee to tell the story of eight families on the edge. Arleen is a single mother trying to raise her two sons on the $20 a month she has left after paying for their rundown apartment. Scott is a gentle nurse consumed by a heroin addiction. Lamar, a man with no legs and a neighborhood full of boys to look after, tries to work his way out of debt. Vanetta participates in a botched stickup after her hours are cut. All are spending almost everything they have on rent, and all have fallen behind. The fates of these families are in the hands of two landlords: Sherrena Tarver, a former schoolteacher turned inner-city entrepreneur, and Tobin Charney, who runs one of the worst trailer parks in Milwaukee. They loathe some of their tenants and are fond of others, but as Sherrena puts it, "Love don't pay the bills." She moves to evict Arleen and her boys a few days before Christmas. Even in the most desolate areas of American cities, evictions used to be rare. But today, most poor renting families are spending more than half of their income on housing, and eviction has become ordinary, especially for single mothers. In vivid, intimate prose, Desmond provides a ground-level view of one of the most urgent issues facing America today. As we see families forced into shelters, squalid apartments, or more dangerous neighborhoods, we bear witness to the human cost of America's vast inequality-and to people's determination and intelligence in the face of hardship. Based on years of embedded fieldwork and painstakingly gathered data, this masterful book transforms our understanding of extreme poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving a devastating, uniquely American problem. Its unforgettable scenes of hope and loss remind us of the centrality of home, without which nothing else is possible.
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Poverty -- United States
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Social science -- Poverty and Homelessness
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Sociology
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United States
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Cities and towns
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Eviction
Eviction -- United States
General
Low-income housing
Low-income housing -- United States
Miete
Milwaukee (Wis.) -- Economic conditions -- 21st century
Milwaukee (Wis.) -- Social conditions -- 21st century
Nonfiction
POLITICAL SCIENCE
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- General
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Economic Conditions
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General
Politics
Poverty
Poverty & Homelessness
Poverty & Homelessness -- SOCIAL SCIENCE
Poverty -- United States
Poverty -- United States -- Case studies
Poverty and Homelessness
Profit
Profit -- United States
Public Policy
Public Policy -- POLITICAL SCIENCE
Ra?umungsvollstreckung
Schulden
Social conditions
Social science
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Poverty & Homelessness
Social science -- Poverty and Homelessness
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban
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subject_facet | Armut Audiobooks Ausgrenzung BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Macroeconomics Cities and towns Cities and towns -- United States Downloadable audio books Electronic books Eviction Eviction -- United States Low-income housing Low-income housing -- United States Miete Milwaukee (Wis.) -- Economic conditions -- 21st century Milwaukee (Wis.) -- Social conditions -- 21st century POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- General POLITICAL SCIENCE / Economic Conditions POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General Poverty Poverty & Homelessness -- SOCIAL SCIENCE Poverty -- United States Poverty -- United States -- Case studies Profit Profit -- United States Public Policy -- POLITICAL SCIENCE Ra?umungsvollstreckung SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Poverty & Homelessness SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban Schulden Social science -- Poverty and Homelessness Social science -- Sociology -- Urban Stadt Umschulungswerksta?tten fu?r Siedler und Auswanderer -- Bitterfeld United States Urban -- Sociology | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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title_full | Evicted : poverty and profit in the American city / Matthew Desmond Evicted Poverty and Profit in the American City Evicted Poverty and Profit in the American City [electronic resource] Desmond, Matthew. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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