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I’m angry, frustrated, outraged, saddened, and so much more by this look at low income renting in the U.S. Although this ethnological study is conducted in a single city, Milwaukee, following a finite number of households, the statistics that pepper this book make it clear that his findings describe the majority of low income neighborhoods in U.S. urban centers. The injustice, the hopelessness, the generational impact is horrendous. Desmond gives us a highly readable, thought-provoking, challeng
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The author lived in various low-income neighborhoods within Milwaukee and followed a number of its residents to see first hand how the inability to live in a stable home impacts the dynamics of the family and keeps them in a cycle of certain poverty. He also was able to build relations with a local landlord to have her tell her side of the story.
What's most shocking is how much children hinder a family's ability to rent and to stay in low-income housing and how little data there is on the subje ...more
What's most shocking is how much children hinder a family's ability to rent and to stay in low-income housing and how little data there is on the subje ...more
"If incarceration had come to define the lives of men from impoverished black neighborhoods, eviction was shaping the lives of women. Poor black men were locked up. Poor black women were locked out." - Matthew Desmond
It's time to discuss the flip side of mass incarceration in the United States. When black men are locked up at record high levels, they leave behind women with multiple children to survive as single-income households.
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This is the sort of book that has the potential to promote real change in the world. Important.
Mar 30, 2016
Julie
marked it as to-read
Apr 03, 2020
Karen Michele Burns
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it was amazing
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Dec 07, 2016
Heather(Gibby)
marked it as maybe
Oct 28, 2017
Genia Lukin
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it was amazing
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Jan 15, 2018
Lise Petrauskas
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