Ezra Rosser
Essay
Exploiting the Poor: Housing, Markets, and Vulnerability
Matthew Desmond’s magisterial Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City is arguably the most important book about poverty in the United States in a generation. Just as Michael Harrington’s The Other America provided the country with a necessary window onto the poverty lurking below the surface of the affluent society of post-war America, so too Evicted brings to life the immense...
Apr 12, 2017