Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City: Difference between revisions

'''''Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City''''' is a 2016 non-fiction book by American author[[Sociology|sociologist]] [[Matthew Desmond]]. Set in the poorest areas of [[Milwaukee]], [[Wisconsin]], the book follows eight families [[Eviction in the United States|struggling to pay rent]] to their [[landlord]]s during the [[financial crisis of 2007–2008]], many of whom face [[Eviction in the United States|eviction]]. Through a year of ethnographic fieldwork, Desmond's goal in the book is to highlight the issues of [[extreme poverty]], [[affordable housing]], and economic exploitation in the United States.<ref>{{Cite book|url=http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/247816/evicted-by-matthew-desmond/|title=Evicted |author=Desmond, Matthew |publisher=PenguinRandomHouse |date=2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=http://crownpublishing.com/archives/feature/23582|title=Feature: ''Poverty and Profit In the American City'' by Matthew Desmond|publisher= The Crown Publishing Group|access-date=May 27, 2017}}</ref>