![]() ![]() His book has filled a critical gap, since previous research studied public housing and overlooked the private rental market - despite the fact that two-thirds of renting families below the poverty line receive no housing assistance.ĭesmond says he hopes that Evicted starts a national conversation about an issue that affects not just low-income families, but middle-class families, too. Desmond, a Harvard professor who is an affiliate of the UW’s Institute for Research on Poverty, found that eviction affects millions of Americans each year. ![]() When sociologist Matthew Desmond MS’04, PhD’10 moved into a Milwaukee trailer park to write the book that became Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, he had no idea that the process of forcibly removing Americans from their homes had become so routine. ![]()
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