The 2015 MacArthur “genius” grant recipient has already ignited a conversation at his alma mater: the university chose Evicted for its 2016 Go Big Read common-reading program. “A fifth of all renters in the country now spend about 50 percent of their income on housing. His book has filled a critical gap, since previous research studied public housing and overlooked the private rental market - despite the fact that two-thirds of renting families below the poverty line receive no housing assistance.ĭesmond says he hopes that Evicted starts a national conversation about an issue that affects not just low-income families, but middle-class families, too. Desmond, a Harvard professor who is an affiliate of the UW’s Institute for Research on Poverty, found that eviction affects millions of Americans each year.
When sociologist Matthew Desmond MS’04, PhD’10 moved into a Milwaukee trailer park to write the book that became Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, he had no idea that the process of forcibly removing Americans from their homes had become so routine.
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