The bestselling book is the culmination of eight years of quantitative and qualitative research in Milwaukee that provides an immersive look at the exploitative logic of eviction.įollowing the lives of several individuals caught in the cycle of eviction, Desmond's Pulitzer Prize-winning tome intersperses their narratives - the apartment searches, appearances in court, church visits - with passages that pull back the curtain of these individual traumas to reveal the system of levers and pulleys that ensure these residents will likely never know a day without some struggle. That's the argument behind Matthew Desmond's critically-acclaimed Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. Missing from that formula is the profit that eviction can deliver to some. But the math isn't as simple as rising rents and growing affordability gaps prompting evictions. In most places, there's little protection for people who can't make rent.
Once a rarity, evictions are an increasingly common part of the country's housing landscape.
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