{"id":70230,"date":"2017-04-26T09:33:41","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T14:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=70230"},"modified":"2017-04-20T23:36:07","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T04:36:07","slug":"matthew-desmond-on-the-social-problem-of-eviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2017\/04\/26\/matthew-desmond-on-the-social-problem-of-eviction\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Desmond on the social problem of eviction"},"content":{"rendered":"

This month sociologist Matthew Desmond won the Pulitzer Prize for his book, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City<\/em><\/a>. Desmond’s book documents, in rich and depressing detail, what it’s like to try to pay rent as a low income earner and how easy it is to end up on the street. Eviction is not caused by personal “irresponsibility,” Desmond insists, it’s essentially “inevitable.”<\/p>\n

Eviction is psychologically scarring, but it also throws families further into poverty, destabilizing their work and family lives, often stripping them of their few possessions, and costing money — all while enriching landlords.<\/p>\n

Here’s 7 minutes from Desmond about his experience living among low income families and the lessons he learned:<\/p>\n