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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
41 reviews
msantiagocoyle's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Racism
Moderate: Racial slurs
Minor: Rape and Schizophrenia/Psychosis
rystonlentil43's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Addiction, Drug use, Racism, and Classism
Moderate: Domestic abuse and Fire/Fire injury
esjackson's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Racism, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, and Classism
Moderate: Bullying, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, and Toxic friendship
Minor: Animal death, Cursing, Gun violence, Incest, Self harm, Suicide, Grief, and Murder
bessadams's review against another edition
4.25
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Toxic relationship, Violence, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Classism
hellavaral's review against another edition
4.25
Moderate: Addiction, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, and Racism
Minor: Animal death, Child death, Gun violence, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Fire/Fire injury
porshainielsen's review against another edition
5.0
Just some of my favorite, profound quotes, but I have literally over 50 annotations.
"They can be compassionate because it's not their only option", he said of liberals who didn't live in trailer parks."
"In 83% of cases, landlords who received a nuisance citation for domestic violence responded by either evicting the tenants or by threatening to evict them for future police calls. Sometimes, this meant evicting a couple, but most of the time landlords evicted women abused by men who did not live with them."
"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. Instead, they tried to survive in color, to season the suffering with pleasure. They would get a little high or have a drink or do a bit of gambling or acquire a television. They might buy lobster on food stamps."
Graphic: Addiction and Racism
c100's review against another edition
4.0
Moderate: Addiction, Drug use, Mental illness, and Racism
savvylit's review against another edition
4.0
For an informative nonfiction book, Evicted was immensely readable. I couldn't help but turn each page, hoping for each tenant to find a stable home. I also found myself increasingly disgusted by both landlords and the criminal justice system for their ability to take away a basic human right (shelter) with seeming ease or even righteousness.
Another aspect of Evicted that I enjoyed was Desmond's postscript regarding how he conducted the research for this book. I had wondered how involved he'd become in the lives of the folks that he followed and I appreciated his addressing that question. I think that Desmond's explanation of ethnography was fascinating and I was also pleased to read that he had developed genuine friendships with a lot of the interviewees.
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Racism, Police brutality, Fire/Fire injury, and Classism
evalion231's review against another edition
5.0
This book put faces and stories to my eviction data work in a way that is missing in our report tbh.
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Racism, Vomit, and Abandonment
Moderate: Suicide
Minor: Animal death
zombiezami's review against another edition
Graphic: Ableism, Racism, and Classism
Moderate: Cursing, Racial slurs, Violence, and Police brutality
Minor: Gun violence