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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
21 reviews
katerockreads's review against another edition
4.5
Moderate: Addiction
Minor: Alcohol, Cursing, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, and Gun violence
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
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
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
bri4103's review against another edition
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Addiction, Alcohol, Racism, and Gun violence
Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Murder
fogthroughthevalley's review against another edition
5.0
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."
Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, and Pregnancy
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
samvanz12's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Violence
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Gun violence, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, and Racial slurs
katsudonburi's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Police brutality, Racism, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide
Minor: Animal death, Forced institutionalization, Panic attacks/disorders, and Rape
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