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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
18 reviews
maevebeck's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Abandonment, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Classism, Fire/Fire injury, Incest, Murder, Sexual assault, Animal death, Child death, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Violence, Addiction, and Child abuse
larbster90's review against another edition
5.0
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
_forestofpages's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Racism, Sexism, and Cursing
Moderate: Racial slurs, Sexual harassment, Child abuse, and Child death
lily1304's review against another edition
4.5
Do not skip the epilogue and afterword about his research methods!
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 povertysfk's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Drug use
Minor: Child death
edie_reads's review against another edition
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
wordswithjustine's review against another edition
4.5
Moderate: Addiction, Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Physical abuse
sherbertwells's review against another edition
3.0
“We have failed to fully appreciate how deeply housing is implicated in the creation of poverty. Not everyone living in a distressed neighborhood is associated with gang members, parole officers, employers, social workers or pastors. But nearly all of them have a landlord.” (5)
“People like Larraine lived with so many compounded limitations that it was difficult to imagine the amount of good behavior or self-control that would allow them to lift themselves out of poverty. The distance between grinding poverty and even stable poverty could be so vast that those at the bottom had little hope of climbing out even if they pinched every penny. So they chose not to” (219).
Perhaps that’s a lesson I need to take to heart. Evicted is a good book with a strong message about a big problem, and if it changes American housing for the better, I would feel nothing but pride.
Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Addiction, and Alcoholism
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, and Child abuse
Minor: Racial slurs, Suicidal thoughts, Police brutality, Mental illness, Gun violence, Grief, Death, and Child death