Evicted

About “Evicted”

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City is a 2016 non-fiction book by Matthew Desmond that examines the impact of housing instability on low-income families in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Through ethnographic fieldwork, the book focuses on eight families navigating the challenges of paying rent during the financial crisis of 2007–2008, highlighting systemic issues of poverty, lack of affordable housing, and economic exploitation.