Evicted : poverty and profit in the American city
Even in the most desolate areas of American cities, evictions used to be rare; today, most poor renting families are spending more than half of their income on housing, and eviction has become ordinary. Desmond takes us into the poorest neighborhoods of Milwaukee to tell the story of eight families on the edge: all are spending almost everything they have on rent, and all have fallen behind. Desmond transforms our understanding of extreme poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving a devastating, uniquely American problem.
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- ISBN: 9780553447439
- ISBN: 0553447432
- ISBN: 9780553447453
- ISBN: 0553447459
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Physical Description:
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x, 418 pages ; 25 cm - Edition: First Edition.
- Publisher: New York : Crown Publishers, [2016]
- Copyright: ©2016
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-405) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Prologue: Cold city -- Part One. Rent. The business of owning the city ; Making rent ; Hot water ; A beautiful collection ; Thirteenth Street ; Rat hole ; The sick ; Christmas in Room 400 -- Part Two. Out. Order some carryout ; Hypes for hire ; The 'hood is good ; Disposable ties ; E-24 ; High tolerance ; A nuisance ; Ashes on snow -- Part Three. 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 -- Epilogue: Home and hope -- About this project. |
Awards Note: | Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, 2017 The Pulitzer Prize, 2017 |
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