All are spending almost everything they have on rent, and all have fallen behind. Vanetta participates in a botched stickup after her hours are cut. Lamar, a man with no legs and a neighborhood full of boys to look after, tries to work his way out of debt. Scott is a gentle nurse consumed by a heroin addiction. 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.Īrleen is a single mother trying to raise her two sons on the $20 a month she has left after paying for their rundown apartment. Winner, 2016 National Book Critics Circle Awardįrom 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 Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
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