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Desmond, Matthew.
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Low-income housing -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee.
Poor -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee.
Eviction -- United States.
Poverty -- United States.
Profit -- United States.
Cities and towns -- United States.
Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Non-Fiction.
Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction.
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Desmond, Matthew.
Low-income housing -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee.
Poor -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee.
Eviction -- United States.
Poverty -- United States.
Profit -- United States.
Cities and towns -- United States.
Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Non-Fiction.
Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction.
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Evicted : poverty and profit in the American city / Matthew Desmond.
by
Desmond, Matthew.
Crown Publishers, [2016]
Call #:
339.46 D464e
Subjects
Low-income housing
--
Wisconsin
--
Milwaukee.
Poor
--
Wisconsin
--
Milwaukee.
Eviction
--
United
States
.
Poverty
--
United
States
.
Profit
--
United
States
.
Cities and towns
--
United
States
.
Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Non-Fiction.
Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction.
ISBN:
9780553447439 (hc.)
9780553447453 (pbk.)
Edition:
First Edition.
Description:
x, 418 pages ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-405) and index.
Contents:
Cold city
--
Rent. The business of owning the city ; Making rent ; Hot water ; A beautiful collection ; Thirteenth Street ; Rat hole ; The sick ; Christmas in Room 400
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Out. Order some carryout ; Hypes for hire ; The 'hood is good ; Disposable ties ; E-24 ; High tolerance ; A nuisance ; Ashes on snow
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After. This is America ; Lobster on food stamps ; Little ; Nobody wants the North Side ; Bigheaded boy ; If they give momma the punishment ; The serenity club ; Can't win for losing
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Home and hope
--
About this project.
Summary:
"The poorest neighborhoods of Milwaukee and the story of eight families on the edge. Arleen is a single mother trying to raise her two sons on the 20 dollars a month she has left after paying for their rundown apartment. Scott is a gentle nurse consumed by a heroin addiction. Lamar, a man with no legs and a neighborhood full of boys to look after, tries to work his way out of debt. Vanetta participates in a botched stickup after her hours are cut. All are spending almost everything they have on rent, and all have fallen behind. The fates of these families are in the hands of two landlords: Sherrena Tarver, a former schoolteacher turned inner-city entrepreneur, and Tobin Charney, who runs one of the worst trailer parks in Milwaukee. They loathe some of their tenants and are fond of others, but as Sherrena puts it, "Love don't pay the bills." She moves to evict Arleen and her boys a few days before Christmas. Even in the most desolate areas of American cities, evictions used to be rare. But today, most poor renting families are spending more than half of their income on housing, and
eviction
has become ordinary, especially for single mothers. A ground-level view of one of the most urgent issues facing America today. As we see families forced into shelters, squalid apartments, or more dangerous neighborhoods, we bear witness to the human cost of America's vast inequality - and to people's determination and intelligence in the face of hardship. Based on years of embedded fieldwork and painstakingly gathered data, an examination of extreme poverty and economic exploitation and fresh ideas for solving a devastating, uniquely American problem. It reminds us of the centrality of home, without which nothing else is possible. Matthew Desmond is an American sociologist and urban ethnographer. He is currently the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University and Co-Director of the Justice and Poverty Project."--Provided by publisher.
Awards:
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction, 2017.
Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Non-Fiction, 2017.
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