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Louis Proyect wrote
NY Times, July 28, 2018
As Affordable Housing Crisis Grows, HUD Sits on the Sidelines
By Glenn Thrush
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This past week I read this moving account of what it's like to be a poor
person in the inner cities of America. It's graphic and compelling. The
story is told by an expert, painstaking ethnographer named Matthew
Desmond, who now teaches at Princeton. Desmond immersed himself for
months in a run-down trailer park and then a multiple dwelling house in
inner-city Milwaukee. He gained the confidence of the people around him
sufficiently to be able to follow them closely in the endless hunt for
housing after multiple evictions, into the small claims rental courts,
through the street culture of a large city, camped out on the streets
with their meager belongings when the sheriffs showed up. He documented
the ruinous, racking effects of the housing crisis as it is experienced
by millions in the US.
This is the synopsis online:
Evicted
Poverty and Profit in the American City
By Matthew Desmond
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Evicted /(2016) tells the heartbreaking story of the individuals and
families who struggle to get by in the United States’ poorest cities.
Despite their best efforts, many of these people have fallen into a
vicious cycle of poverty that has left them at the mercy of greedy
property owners who don’t hesitate to evict families at the slightest
provocation. To take a closer look at the details of their lives, we’ll
focus on the inner city of Milwaukee and the tenants and landlords who
populate this deeply segregated area.
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