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.' Background Įvicted was well-received and won multiple book awards such as the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and the Robert F. Through a year of ethnographic fieldwork, Desmond's goal in the book is to highlight the issues of extreme poverty, affordable housing, and economic exploitation in the United States. 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. You know, let's reevaluate our priorities.' What if we started having that conversation? If one or two of us had that conversation, that's not a big difference, but what if we started having that conversation by the hundreds and the thousands and the ten thousands? I think that's one way to change the common sense of the country and start putting political pressure not only upwards but on each of us.Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City is a 2016 non-fiction book by American author Matthew Desmond. So, you know what I'm going to do this year? I'm going to donate what I save with that deduction, and I'm going to write my congressperson and say, look, wind down this program. It's incredible that the government spends money on me instead of spending money on families that desperately need a safe and affordable home.

I don't need it, and gosh, we have an eviction crisis going on. I get a lot of money from the government for my big suburban home.

I get this thing called a mortgage interest deduction. We run into each other at the coffee machine at work or in the backyard barbecue, and we say, 'Oh, my gosh, my tax bill.' So, what if this tax season when your buddy says, 'Oh, my gosh, you know, I got this tax bill coming up,' you said, 'I know. So, tax season is coming out, right? So, a lot of times, those of us left, right, and center, we don't like paying taxes. I think this can start on a very personal day-to-day basis.

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