Book #58 of 2017: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond A brutal firsthand study of eviction, emphasizing both its high frequency and the devastating toll it takes on families. Matthew Desmond, an ethnographer who spent years living in low-income neighborhoods and trailer parks to research this book, shows how precarious …
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