page_title: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
hierarchical_section_title: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
caption_attribution_description: English: Matthew Desmond discusses Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City at the 2017 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. Speaker Biography: Matthew Desmond is the John L. Loeb associate professor of the social sciences at Harvard University. His research focuses on urban sociology, race and ethnicity, poverty, social theory, organizations and work, and ethnography. Desmond was awarded a MacArthur grant in 2015 for his work on poverty. He is the author of four books, including the award-winning "On the Fireline." His most recent book, "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City" is the winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction.
context_page_description: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City is a 2016 non-fiction book by the American author Matthew Desmond. Set in the poorest areas of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the book follows eight families struggling to pay rent to their landlords during the financial crisis of 2007–2008. It highlights the issues of extreme poverty, affordable housing, and economic exploitation in the United States. Desmond advocates for a universal housing voucher program from the U.S. government for families below a certain income threshold so that they pay no more than 30 percent of their income on housing.
  The book won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. The Pulitzer committee selected the book "for a deeply researched exposé that showed how mass evictions after the 2008 economic crash were less a consequence than a cause of poverty". It also won the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award, the 2017 PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction, the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Nonfiction Award, the 2017 Hillman Prize for Book Journalism, the 2017 Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize and the 2018 Order of the Coif Book Award.
context_section_description: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City is a 2016 non-fiction book by the American author Matthew Desmond. Set in the poorest areas of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the book follows eight families struggling to pay rent to their landlords during the financial crisis of 2007–2008. It highlights the issues of extreme poverty, affordable housing, and economic exploitation in the United States. Desmond advocates for a universal housing voucher program from the U.S. government for families below a certain income threshold so that they pay no more than 30 percent of their income on housing.
  The book won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. The Pulitzer committee selected the book "for a deeply researched exposé that showed how mass evictions after the 2008 economic crash were less a consequence than a cause of poverty". It also won the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award, the 2017 PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction, the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Nonfiction Award, the 2017 Hillman Prize for Book Journalism,  the 2017 Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize and the 2018 Order of the Coif Book Award.
caption: Desmond discusses the book at the 2017 National Book Festival
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