Evicted
Matthew Desmond wrote Evicted using people in Milwaukee WI. Many of us live in Milwaukee or environs. This book shows the economic downside of being Black and poor in Milwaukee. Mr. Desmond concentrates on the people living in Milwaukee, but the conditions he describes exist in all cities in the United States. His words wake up to how poverty shapes people’s lives in negative ways. Poverty is a condition we simply cannot ignore.
By Matthew Desmond
“Written with the vividness of a novel, [Evicted] offers a dark mirror of middle-class America’s obsession with real estate, laying bare the workings of the low end of the market, where evictions have become just another pattern of an often lucrative business model.”
-Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times