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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
17 reviews
albernikolauras's review against another edition
5.0
There wasn't a moment that you didn't feel the anger and frustration that we choose to treat people this way - as if their life doesn't matter. Desmond is clear about the ripple effect instable housing has on people - emotionally and physically - and the community they live in. How it effects the children stuck in this cycle, hopping from school to school while balancing taking care of their siblings.
Desmond wraps up the book describing his place within these situations, how he lived near them, when he intervened to help the families he followed, and what we can do to help prevent the worst of this. It is frightening that this has likely only gotten worse with the increasing housing prices and cost of living with no real increase in government support.
Graphic: Classism, Drug use, Addiction, and Mental illness
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Child abuse, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Violence, Toxic friendship, Racism, Gun violence, Sexual assault, and War
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 povertydominicangirl's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Racism, and Mental illness
Moderate: Addiction, Drug use, and Emotional abuse
Minor: Fire/Fire injury
edie_reads's review
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
5.0
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
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
beetsnotbombs's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Death, Grief, Gun violence, Mental illness, and Sexual content
Minor: Trafficking