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| Author | Matthew Desmond |
|---|---|
| Audio read by | Dion Graham[1] |
| Cover artist | Nina Mangalanayagam (floor photo)[2] Pavel Shynkarou (wall photo)[2] Jake Nicolella (design)[2] |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Sociology, poverty, low-income housing |
| Set in | Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. |
| Publisher | Crown |
Publication date | March 2016 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback) |
| Pages | 432 |
| Award | Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction |
| ISBN | 978-0-553-44743-9 |
| OCLC | 936126297 |
| 339.4/60973 | |
| LC Class | HD7287.96.U6 D47 2016 |
| Website | www |
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City is a 2016 nonfiction book by American sociologist Matthew Desmond. Set in the poorest areas of Milwaukee, Wisconsin during the 2007–2008 financial crisis and its immediate aftermath, the book follows eight families struggling to pay rent to their landlords, many of whom face eviction. Through a year of ethnographic fieldwork, Desmond's goal is to highlight the issues of extreme poverty, affordable housing, and economic exploitation in the United States.[3]
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".[4]
- ^ "Evicted by Matthew Desmond". Penguin Random House Audio. Retrieved March 26, 2020.
- ^ a b c Matthew Desmond (2016). Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. Crown Publishers. p. 6. ISBN 978-0-553-44743-9.
- ^ Feature: Poverty and Profit In the American City by Matthew Desmond. The Crown Publishing Group. Retrieved May 27, 2017.
- ^ "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, by Matthew Desmond". Pulitzer.org. Retrieved May 27, 2017.