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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
by Matthew Desmond · 2016 · 432 pages
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About This Book
Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Through years of fieldwork, the book explores how mass evictions and the lack of affordable housing drive and sustain extreme poverty in America.
Book Details
Published
2016
Pages
432
Language
en
ISBN
9780553447439
Awards & Recognition
Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (2017)National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction (2016)Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction (2017)PEN / John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction (2017)Robert F. Kennedy Book Award (2017)
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