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Exploiting the Poor: Housing, Markets, and Vulnerability

Ezra Rosser

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 surfac…