Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City is a 2016 nonfiction book by American sociologist Matthew Desmond. Set in the poorest areas of Milwaukee, Wisconsin during the 2007–2008 financial crisis and its immediate aftermath, the book follows eight families struggling to pay rent to their landlords, many of whom face eviction. Through a year of ethnographic fieldwork, Desmond's goal is to highlight the issues of extreme poverty, affordable housing, and economic exploitation in the United S
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2016 non-fiction book by Matthew Desmond
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2017-05-27T14:42:30Z
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2024-08-28T22:33:00Z
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