Name: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Author: Matthew Desmond
ISBN: 9780553447439

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DESMOND, Matthew

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

2016

1. Politics

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Matthew Desmond Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City Overview Matthew Desmond’s Evicted is a fieldwork-driven account of housing insecurity in Milwaukee during the aftermath of the financial crisis. Its central subject is eviction, but the book is larger than the legal moment when a tenant is removed. It follows how rent, court records, emergency calls, utility bills, informal removals, screening databases, shelters, welfare sanctions, city inspection regimes, and landlord business models combine into a system that makes poverty less a static condition than a machine that keeps moving…

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Accession:FL-0092

ISBN-13:9780553447439

Published:2016

Language:en

Shelved under:Politics

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