He was previously a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows. Desmond is the author of numerous books and articles. Most recently, he has published on eviction and the low-income rental market, the American affordable housing crisis, survival strategies among the urban poor, and the consequences of new crime control policies on inner-city women. He is the principal investigator of the Milwaukee Area Renters Study, a MacArthur Foundation-funded original survey of tenants in Milwaukee’s low-income private housing sector, and editor of The Russell Sage Journal of the Social SciencesSpecial Issue on Severe Deprivation in America. Desmond is currently completing his fourth book: Evicted: Poverty, Exploitation, and Survival in the American City, forthcoming by Crown.