Evicted : : Poverty and Profit in the American City
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Originally published: New York : Broadway Books, [2016]
Cold city -- The business of owning the city -- Making rent -- Hot water -- A beautiful collection -- Thirteenth Street -- Rat hole -- The sick -- Christmas in room 400 -- Order some carryout -- Hypes for hire -- The 'hood is good -- Disposable ties -- E-24 -- High tolerance -- A nuisance -- Ashes on snow -- This is America -- Lobster on food stamps -- Little -- Nobody wants the North Side -- Bigheaded boy -- If they give momma the punishment -- The serenity club -- Can't win for losing -- Home and hope -- About this project.
Harvard sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they struggle to keep a roof over their heads.
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PUBLISHED
Farmington Hills, Michigan : Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2017.
Year Published: 2017
Description: 685 p. ; 23 cm.
Language: English
Format: Large Type
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781432843137
1432843389
SUBJECTS
Low-income housing.
Eviction.
Poverty.
Profit.
Cities and towns.