Evicted : poverty and profit in the American city / Matthew Desmond.
Publisher: New York City : Crown, 2016Edition: First EditionDescription: 418 pages ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0553447432 (hardback)
- 0553447459 (paperback)
- 9780553447439 (hardback)
- 9780553447453 (paperback)
- 339.4/60973 23
- HD7287.96 .U6 D47 2016
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Includes index and bibliographic references.
Prologue: 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 -- OUT. Order some carryout ; Hypes for hire ; The 'hood is good ; Disposable ties ; E-24 ; High tolerance ; A nuisance ; Ashes on snow -- 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.
A Harvard sociologist examines the challenge of eviction as a formidable cause of poverty in America, revealing how millions of people are wrongly forced from their homes and reduced to cycles of extreme disadvantage that are reinforced by dysfunctional legal systems.