Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Author Matthew Desmond discusses the book at the 2017 National Book Festival
Author Matthew Desmond
Country United States
Language English
Subject Sociology, Poverty, Low-income housing
Genre Non-fiction
Publisher Crown
Publication date
 March, 2016
Media type Print (Hardback)
Pages 432
ISBN 978-0-553-44743-9
OCLC 936126297

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 around the 2008 financial crisis. It highlights the issues of extreme poverty, affordable housing, and economic exploitation in the United States.[1][2]

The book won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Pulitzer committee's 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."[3] It also won the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award, 2017 PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction, 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.[4][5][6][7][8][9]

References

  1. ↑ Evicted by Matthew Desmond | PenguinRandomHouse.com.
  2. ↑ "Poverty and Profit In the American City - The Crown Publishing Group". crownpublishing.com. Retrieved 2017-05-27.
  3. ↑ The Pulitzer Committee. "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, by Matthew Desmond". www.pulitzer.org. Retrieved 2017-05-27.
  4. ↑ Calvin Reid (March 17, 2017). "Louise Erdrich, Matthew Desmond Win 2016 NBCC Awards". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved May 27, 2017.
  5. ↑ "2017 PEN/JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH AWARD FOR NONFICTION - PEN America". PEN America. 2017-01-18. Retrieved 2017-05-27.
  6. ↑ "Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction & Nonfiction | Awards & Grants". www.ala.org. Retrieved 2017-05-27.
  7. ↑ "2017 Hillman Prizes". Hillman Foundation. Retrieved 2017-05-27.
  8. ↑ Schoenberg, Nara (May 4, 2017). "'The Underground Railroad,' 'Evicted' win Tribune's Heartland Prizes". chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 2017-05-27.
  9. ↑ The Order of the Coif. "Order of the Coif Book Awards". Retrieved 2018-09-27.


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