Its unforgettable scenes of hope and loss remind us of the centrality of home, without which nothing else is possible.". Evicted transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving one of twenty-first-century America's most devastating problems.
"In Evicted, Harvard sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Taking readers on a journey into the daily lives of families facing eviction, sometimes repeatedly, the author creates a compelling and heartbreaking work that leaves readers wondering how we got here and what we can do to help.". This lecture is part of the A New Social Compact? series, sponsored by the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality, the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, Stanford Continuing Studies, the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society, the Department of Sociology, the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, and the Program on Urban Studies."In this powerful work of narrative nonfiction, Desmond documents the months he spent living alongside tenants and landlords in Milwaukee, exploring the issues of poverty and homelessness in a segregated city. Desmond is the principal investigator of The Eviction Lab and his research focuses on poverty in America, city life, housing insecurity, public policy, racial inequality, and ethnography. He is the author of four books, including Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (2016), which won the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Carnegie Medal, and PEN / John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction. Matthew Desmond is Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. Based on years of embedded fieldwork and painstakingly gathered data, Desmond transforms our understanding of extreme poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving a devastating, uniquely American problem.
In this lecture, based on his Pulitzer Prize-winning book Evicted, Matthew Desmond tells the story of eight families in Milwaukee as they struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Eviction has become routine-part of a vicious cycle that deepens our country’s vast inequality. But today, most poor renting families spend more than half of their income on housing. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (November 28, 2017)Įven in the most desolate areas of American cities, evictions used to be rare.
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