NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY President Barack Obama * The New York Times Book Review * The Boston Globe * The Washington Post * NPR * Entertainment Weekly * The New Yorker * Bloomberg * Esquire * BuzzFeed * Fortune * San Francisco Chronicle * Milwaukee Journal Sentinel * St. Its unforgettable scenes of hope and loss remind us of the centrality of home, without which nothing else is possible. Hailed as 'wrenching and revelatory' ( The Nation ), 'vivid and unsettling' ( New York Review of Books ), Evicted transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving one of twenty-first-century America's most devastating problems.

In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur 'Genius' Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE * NAMED ONE OF TIME 'S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE * One of the most acclaimed books of our time, this modern classic 'has set a new standard for reporting on poverty' (Barbara Ehrenreich, The New York Times Book Review ).

Evicted poverty and profit