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

5.0

‘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.’

after I finished this book I found myself in tears while cleaning my own house. stable living conditions can either make or break a society-and wow, what a thing to be taken for granted. a must read for anyone that wants a perspective straight from the ones affected the most by America’s housing crisis, gentrification and poverty.