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Evicted

  • Matthew Desmond,
  • Enrique Maldonado Rold‡n

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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City is a 2016 non-fiction book by American author Matthew Desmond. Set in the poorest areas of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the book follows eight families struggling to pay rent to their landlords during the financial crisis of 2007–2008. 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.

Evicted was well-received and won multiple book awards such as the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. The Pulitzer committee selected the book "for a deeply researched exposé that showed how mass evictions after the 2008 economic crash were less a consequence than a cause of poverty."

Genres

  • Domestic Politics
  • non-fiction
  • 2008 financial crisis
  • low-income housing
  • eviction
  • poverty
  • profit
  • cities and towns
  • social science
  • urban sociology
  • poverty and homelessness
  • extreme poverty
  • affordable housing
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness
  • POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban
  • Poor, housing
  • Cities and towns, united states
  • nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-nonfiction=2016-03-20
  • New York Times bestseller
  • New York Times reviewed
  • Sociology
  • Urban
  • Public Housing
  • Poverty Areas
  • Homeless Persons
  • Poverty & Homelessness
  • POLITICAL SCIENCE
  • Public Policy
  • General
  • Stadt
  • Armut
  • Miete
  • Schulden
  • Räumungsvollstreckung
  • Ausgrenzung
  • Landlord and tenant
  • COMMUNAUTÉS LOCALES + GROUPES LIÉS À UN LIEU + SOCIOLOGIE URBAINE
  • Fre
  • GHETTOS + ZONES DE SÉGRÉGATION
  • MILWAUKEE
  • MISÈRE FINANCIÈRE ET PAUVRETÉ
  • POLITIQUE DU LOGEMENT
  • QUARTIERS MISÉREUX + TAUDIS
  • SANS-ABRI + VAGABONDAGE
  • ÉTATS-UNIS D'AMÉRIQUE, USA
  • Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer
  • Pauvres
  • Logement
  • Expulsion (Droit)
  • Pauvreté
  • Villes
  • Logement social
  • Housing projects
  • Case studies
  • Social conditions
  • Economic conditions
  • Economic history
  • Social sciences
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About the authors

  • Matthew Desmond

    4.25

    24 ratings · 8 works

  • Enrique Maldonado Rold‡n

    4.32

    19 ratings · 8 works

Editions

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    Audible, Random House Audio

    Mar 01, 2016

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    Capitán Swing Libros

    Mar 06, 2017

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    Capitán Swing Libros

    Mar 06, 2017

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    Capitán Swing Libros

    Mar 06, 2017

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Capitán Swing Libros

Mar 06, 2017

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    Ullstein Verlag GmbH

    Apr 06, 2018

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    https://www.ullstein.de/werke/zwangsgeraeumt/epub/9783843717748

    06.04.2018

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    First Paperback Edition (20)

    Broadway Books

    2017

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    First Paperback Edition (7)

    Broadway Books

    2017

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    Allen Lane

    2016

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    Crown Publisher, 2016 First Edition

    2016

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    First Paperback Edition (17)

    Broadway Books

    2017

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    Large print edition (1)

    Thorndike Press

    2017

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    Broadway Books

    2017

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    First Edition (1)

    Crown Publishers

    2016

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    Chu ban

    Shi bao wen hua chu ban qi ye gu fen you xian gong si

    2017

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    Guang XI Shi Fan Da Xue Chu Ban She/Tsai Fong Books

    Jul 01, 2018

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    Penguin Books, Limited

    2016

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    Penguin Books, Limited

    2017