Ebook: Evicted: poverty and profit in the American city
Author: Desmond Matthew
- Tags: Low-income housing -- United States, Eviction -- United States, Poverty -- United States -- Case studies, Milwaukee (Wis ) -- Social conditions -- 21st century, Milwaukee (Wis ) -- Economic conditions -- 21st century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General, Cities and towns, Eviction, Low-income housing, Poverty, Profit, United States
- Year: 2016
- Publisher: Crown Publishers
- City: Milwaukee (Wis.), United States.
- Edition: First Edition.
- Language: English
- epub
Sociologist Matthew Desmond takes us into the poorest neighborhoods of Milwaukee to tell the story of eight families on the edge. Arleen is a single mother trying to raise her two sons on the 20 dollars a month she has left after paying for their rundown apartment. Scott is a gentle nurse consumed by a heroin addiction. Lamar, a man with no legs and a neighborhood full of boys to look after, tries to work his way Read more...