Mariah Roze's Reviews > Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

I have been wanting to read this book forever since this book talks about the truth with eviction in Milwaukee, Wissconsin- an area that I visit often: just last weekend...

The author, Matthew Desmond, takes us to some of the poorest neighborhoods of Milwaukee and shares the stories of eight families. One of the families is Arleen's. She is a single mother trying to raise her two sons on the $20 a month she has left after paying for their rundown apartment. Another person story he shares is Scott's. He is a gentle nurse consumed by a heroin addiction. Lamar, a man with no legs and a neighborhood full of boys to look after, tries to work his way out of debt. Vanetta participates in a botched stickup after her hours are cut. All are spending almost everything they have on rent, and all have fallen behind.

These stories are heartbreaking and true... I suggest this book to everyone so they can learn about the unacknowledged problem of evictions and poverty.