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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond

38 reviews

larbster90's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

One of the best non-fiction books I've read. Tells the story of eviction not just with numbers, but with human stories. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs

Moderate: Drug abuse, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, Addiction, Animal death, Racism, Physical abuse, Child death, and Drug use

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Death, Grief, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

elyssajoh's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Sexual content, Racial slurs, Toxic relationship, Fire/Fire injury, Drug use, Drug abuse, Cursing, Alcohol, Addiction, and Abandonment

lily1304's review against another edition

informative sad medium-paced

4.5

Honestly this was a brilliant ethnography - people don't take sociology seriously as a field of research, but this is an example of why they should! Personal stories hit home more than impersonal statistics, but Desmond cites plenty of research too to back up the stories he records.

Do not skip the epilogue and afterword about his research methods!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Mental illness, Racial slurs, and Racism

Moderate: Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Grief, Pregnancy, and Violence

Descriptions of eviction, homelessness, hunger, and poverty

drinaiscold's review against another edition

emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Drug abuse, and Violence

bri4103's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Addiction, Alcohol, Racism, and Gun violence

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Murder

junefish's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Drug abuse, Addiction, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Xenophobia, Ableism, Animal death, Cursing, Drug use, Alcoholism, and Sexism

Minor: Vomit, Toxic friendship, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, Pregnancy, and Police brutality

fogthroughthevalley's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Contains both personal stories of eviction and academic analysis of the issue. The anecdotes draw you in and the issue solidifies in a way that might not already be apparent for people who have not experienced poverty and eviction firsthand. I would deem this an essential read for anyone interested in better understanding the inhumane systems currently in place in the United States.

Two quotes/sections of the book that immediately stood out to me:
"When people began to view their neighborhood as brimming with deprivation and vice, full of all sorts of shipwrecked humanity, they lost confidence in its political capacity. 
Milwaukee renters who perceived higher levels of neighborhood trauma, believing that their neighbors had experienced incarceration, abuse, addiction, and other harrowing events, were far less likely to believe that people in their community could come together to improve their lives. 
This lack of faith had less to do with their neighborhood's actual poverty and crime rates than with the level of concentrated suffering they perceived around them. 
A community that saw so clearly its own pain, had a difficult time also sensing its potential."

"But equal treatment in an unequal society could still foster inequality."
 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, and Pregnancy

kaddyren's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

Very informative and has memorable characters, but would probably not read again any time soon. Lots of triggering subjects. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug use, Drug abuse, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Racism

Minor: Toxic relationship and Toxic friendship

edie_reads's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Murder, Racism, Sexism, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Grief

Minor: Animal death, Pregnancy, Mental illness, Excrement, and Cursing

julesapollo's review against another edition

dark relaxing fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Grief, Medical content, Mental illness, Murder, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, and Violence