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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American…
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (édition 2016)

par Matthew Desmond (Auteur)

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Plong?e dans le quotidien disloqu? de huit foyers des quartiers pauvres de Milwaukee, au Wisconsin, o chaque jour, des dizaines de m?nages sont expuls?s de leurs maisons. Arleen ?l?ve ses gar?ons avec les 20 dollars qui lui restent pour tout le mois, apr?s avoir pay? le loyer. Lamar, amput? des jambes, s'occupe des gamins du quartier en plus d'?duquer ses deux fils. Scott, infirmier devenu toxicomane apr?s une hernie discale, vit dans un mobile home insalubre. Tous sont pris dans l'engrenage de l'endettement et leur sort est entre les mains de leurs propri?taires, que l'on suit aussi au fil du r?cit. Fruit de longues ann?es de terrain, ce livre montre comment la d?gradation des politiques du logement et la d?r?glementation du march? de l'immobilier fabriquent et entretiennent l'endettement chronique et la pauvret?, une violente ?pid?mie qui s'av?re tr?s rentable pour certains et qui frappe surtout les plus vuln?rables, en l'occurrence les femmes noires. Ouvrage magistral et captivant qui offre un regard pr?cis et juste sur la pauvret? et un implacable plaidoyer pour le droit ? un habitat digne pour tous… (plus d'informations)
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Titre:Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Auteurs:Matthew Desmond (Auteur)
Info:Crown (2016), Edition: 1, 432 pages
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It's no wonder why this book received the Pulitzer Prize. It's filled with stories from real people from different walks of life...renters and landlords, and does a wonderful job of sharing authentic stories of poverty. Matthew Desmond does an excellent job of explaining how different and similar everyone's situation is once they are trapped in the cycle of poverty-renting-eviction and rinse/repeat. It is so hard to get ahead once you have little to no income, the majority of your income goes to rent and every scrap after that is spent to survive.
It's heartbreaking and thought provoking and hopefully evokes some compassion as well. ( )
  mrsgrits | Feb 8, 2024 |
None of us set out to be poor. None of us aim to live in squalor, or hunger, or succumb to damp, icy winter. Matthew Desmond's terrific eye-witness report from the poor of inner-city Milwaukee shows us not only what we're missing. He miraculously tells us what we have in our homes that has been cut out of the lives of the poor who cannot keep their homes safe. In our lives, where there is no violence we build confidence and security in our children. The smells, the stench of broken pipes and rotting garbage do not invade our living rooms or our bedrooms. No bedbugs, no cockroaches, no rats to disgust us. No fear of drugs. No fear of the law. And no fear of the bailiff. I loved this book as much because of what tells us why our homes are so precious as what it tells about homes that are irreparably broken. You cannot read this book without some pity for these broken families, but you can come out for a great rationale for making the home so much better. While the book is ostensibly about housing, the subtext is about homes, and that isn't arguing semantics either. ( )
  MylesKesten | Jan 23, 2024 |
It is impossible to give stars for a book that is well constructed, easy to read, but has created for me a state of constant anxiety so much i can't bear to finish it. It is one of those books that let us see the deep and permanent flaws of capitalism. I am glad I read it, but I am not sure it will offer me a way to engage politically in a system that is so awful. ( )
  mslibrarynerd | Jan 13, 2024 |
EVERYONE SHOULD READ THIS BOOK. If you are pressed for time, I think it's worth it just to read the epilogue because the author lays out some solutions to the housing crisis that are worth considering. Here are some random thoughts I had about the book:

1. Think about how messed up this is: If you get evicted, you can be disqualified from receiving government housing assistance. Obviously, people who have been evicted need housing assistance the most! And yet, our system seems designed to punish people who have made mistakes or suffered from circumstances beyond their control.

2. The amount of money the government gives back to homeowners (through benefits like the mortgage interest deduction) is roughly equal to the amount of money it would take to house every American. Think about that. As Desmond says, we can afford to fix the housing crisis.

3. I was reminded often of a book I recommend all the time: [book:Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx|385255]. Together these books help undo the myth that poverty is the result of some individual weakness or failing. ( )
  LibrarianDest | Jan 3, 2024 |
I read Poverty early this year, and this is just a zoomed in look at one aspect of poverty. It's heartbreaking and absolutely a systemic failure that anyone is homeless. I will never understand why women are evicted for being nuisances when it's abusive men threatening them that are the nuisance. This is excellent and should improve anyone's empathy. ( )
  KallieGrace | Nov 29, 2023 |
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A shattering account of life on the American fringe, Matthew Desmond’s Evicted shows the reality of a housing crisis that few among the political or media elite ever think much about, let alone address. It takes us to the center of what would be seen as an emergency of significant proportions if the poor had any legitimate political agency in American life. ... The son of a working-class preacher, Desmond is an associate professor of social sciences at Harvard, and he did much of his research as he completed a Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin. Evicted recalls Studs Terkel’s searching representations of ordinary people in their jobs in his 1974 book, Working, and more recently, George Packer’s account of the disintegration of the social contract in The Unwinding in 2013.
ajouté par Lemeritus | modifierThe New Republic, Brandon Harris (payer le site) (Apr 12, 2016)
 
It has been a long time since a book has struck me like Desmond’s “Evicted,” not since Drew Gilpin Faust’s “This Republic of Suffering,” which showed how Americans dealt with their Civil War dead. I suspect the resonance is not coincidental. Desmond, a sociologist at Harvard University, writes about another kind of mass death: The demise of opportunity and of hope that occurs when individuals are forced to leave their homes. ... “Evicted” does not traffic in tired arguments about racial pa­thol­ogies or family breakdown. Rather, Desmond identifies perverse market structures, destructive government policies and the cascade of misfortunes that comes with losing your home. ... “Evicted” is an extraordinary feat of reporting and ethnography. Desmond has made it impossible to ever again consider poverty in America without tackling the central role of housing — and without grappling with “Evicted.”
ajouté par Lemeritus | modifierThe Washington Post, Carlos Lozada (payer le site) (Mar 3, 2016)
 
“Evicted” is a regal hybrid of ethnography and policy reporting. It follows the lives of eight families in Milwaukee, some black and some white, all several leagues below the poverty line. Mr. Desmond, a sociologist and a co-director of the Justice and Poverty Project at Harvard, lived among them in 2008 and 2009. ... The result is an exhaustively researched, vividly realized and, above all, unignorable book — after “Evicted,” it will no longer be possible to have a serious discussion about poverty without having a serious discussion about housing. ... “If incarceration had come to define the lives of men from impoverished black neighborhoods,” Mr. Desmond writes, “eviction was shaping the lives of women. Poor black men were locked up. Poor black women were locked out.”
 

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If incarceration had come to define the lives of men from impoverished black neighborhoods, eviction was shaping the lives of women. Poor black men were locked up. Poor black women were locked out.
No one thought the poor more undeserving than the poor themselves.
A community that saw so clearly its own pain had a difficult time also sensing its potential.
What the chief failed to realize, or failed to reveal, was that his department's own rules presented battered women with the devil's bargain: keep quiet and face abuse or call the police and face eviction.
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Plong?e dans le quotidien disloqu? de huit foyers des quartiers pauvres de Milwaukee, au Wisconsin, o chaque jour, des dizaines de m?nages sont expuls?s de leurs maisons. Arleen ?l?ve ses gar?ons avec les 20 dollars qui lui restent pour tout le mois, apr?s avoir pay? le loyer. Lamar, amput? des jambes, s'occupe des gamins du quartier en plus d'?duquer ses deux fils. Scott, infirmier devenu toxicomane apr?s une hernie discale, vit dans un mobile home insalubre. Tous sont pris dans l'engrenage de l'endettement et leur sort est entre les mains de leurs propri?taires, que l'on suit aussi au fil du r?cit. Fruit de longues ann?es de terrain, ce livre montre comment la d?gradation des politiques du logement et la d?r?glementation du march? de l'immobilier fabriquent et entretiennent l'endettement chronique et la pauvret?, une violente ?pid?mie qui s'av?re tr?s rentable pour certains et qui frappe surtout les plus vuln?rables, en l'occurrence les femmes noires. Ouvrage magistral et captivant qui offre un regard pr?cis et juste sur la pauvret? et un implacable plaidoyer pour le droit ? un habitat digne pour tous

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