Matthew Desmond’s *Evicted* follows tenants and landlords in Milwaukee to show how eviction works as one of the central engines of American poverty. Through Arleen, Sherrena, Lamar, Larraine, Scott, Crystal, Vanetta, Tobin, and others, Desmond turns housing court, shelter life, nuisance ordinances, rent burdens, screening records, storage losses, and landlord profit into one connected story.…