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

challenging emotional sad medium-paced

4.75

Very important book as a political and sociological insight into housing and poverty in America. I liked that the subjectivity of the author is removed by focusing directly onto the lived realities of the people whose stories are told in detail, and with context and statistics that made me sigh/utter my indignation as I read about their struggles. The Epilogue and About The Project section was also really important to read, and learning about the insane scale of the methodologies of this ethnography earned my respect for Matthew Desmond. My only gripe with this book would be the organisation as it’s rather hard to track the protagonists’ stories. I mostly forgot what happened to who as I read on because there were many of them.