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Evicted : poverty and profit in the American city / Matthew Desmond.

Desmond, Matthew, (author.).

Record details

  • ISBN: 1432843133 (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 9781432843137 (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 9781432843137 (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 1432843133 (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 9781432843137 (hardcover ; large print)
  • ISBN: 1432843133 (hardcover ; large print)
  • ISBN: 9781432843380 (pbk. ; large print)
  • ISBN: 1432843389 (pbk. ; large print)
  • Physical Description: 687 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
  • Publisher: Farmington Hills, Michigan : Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2017.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Originally published: New York : Broadway Books, [2016].
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:
Cold city -- The business of owning the city -- Making rent -- Hot water -- A beautiful collection -- Thirteenth Street -- Rat hole -- The sick -- Christmas in room 400 -- Order some carryout -- Hypes for hire -- The 'hood is good -- Disposable ties -- E-24 -- High tolerance -- A nuisance -- Ashes on snow -- This is America -- Lobster on food stamps -- Little -- Nobody wants the North Side -- Bigheaded boy -- If they give momma the punishment -- The serenity club -- Can't win for losing -- Home and hope -- About this project.
Summary, etc.:
Harvard sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they struggle to keep a roof over their heads.
Subject: Low-income housing > United States.
Eviction > United States.
Poverty > United States.
Profit > United States.
Cities and towns > United States.
Large print type books.
Genre: Large type books.


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