Matthew Desmond
Matthew Desmond is the Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology at Princeton University and the founding director of the Eviction Lab. His last book, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, among others. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, Desmond is also a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine.
Matthew Desmond is the Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology at Princeton University and the founding director of the Eviction Lab. His last book, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, among others. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, Desmond is also a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. See less
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Matthew Desmond book reviews
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
An Unforgettable Account
by Juanita, Apr 19, 2021
I read through Evicted around three times and it did not take long to find out that this is an unforgettable book, an unforgettable account of people who are working hard to survive and live in ... Read More
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
How the high cost of housing leads to poverty
Excellent work of a sociologist on in impacts of the high cost of housing in people's lives. He tells very compelling stories of eight families in Milwaukee showing how the high cost of housing ... Read More
