Evicted
Matthew Desmond
16 people recommended it in 10 threads, 2017–2020.
What people on Hacker News said
He gave me a better sense of what it is like to be poor in this country than anything else I have read.
On the other hand, "Evicted" is a book I think everyone should read. It gives great examples of how hard it can be to climb out of poverty.
Evicted. Showed me how racism is still alive today, how bad it actually is to live in poverty even in a wealthy country in the USA. Tore down a lot of assumptions I had made.
"Evicted" is one of the most crushing books I've read. Desmond does a good job of showing how the feedback loop of poverty works.
But it's also one of the best non-fiction books I've read in my whole life: incredibly humane and well researched!
Written in research driven prose, it details the relationships between a handfull of landlords and tenants in some of the poorest neighborhoods of Milwaukee.
Geez, this is some heartbreaking stuff, a an even more sobering account of the neoliberalization of urbanism than Solnit's book.
Where it comes up
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