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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Matthew Desmond

Start date: June 28, 2024

Finish date: July 17, 2024

Why we're reading this: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City is Books That Will Change Your Life: A Nonfiction Book C…more
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Jun 14, 2024 Karna Converse rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: 2024-library-challenge

Encourages readers to answer a single question: do we believe that the right to a decent
home is part of what it means to be an American?

Even though this award-winning book was published in 2016 and based on research conducted in 2008, Desmond's stories about the people he interviewed, accompanied around the neighborhood, and lived with reveal how much an individual's or family's survival depends on having a place they can call home. Within each individual's story, he deftly weaves in social issu ...more

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Mar 17, 2021 Brandon rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: owned, non-fiction, books-that-stuck-with-me

This is an essential read for well...most people. Here's an abbreviated list of people who I think should read this book:
- People who care about affordable housing.
- People who care about luxury house.
- People who care about poverty generally.
- People who care about food insecurity.
- People who care about whether or not people can afford their utilities.
- People who care about race.
- People who care about children.
- People who care about parents.
- People who rent or who have rented.
- People ...more

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Jul 07, 2017 James rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites, politics

Will change the way you think about housing and housing insecurity. A problem we could solve if we took the trauma of eviction seriously and we took the complaints of landlords with a big chunk of salt. Desmond is so thoughtful and approaches the issues of class and race without piety but with plenty of humility.

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