![]() ![]() ![]() As Desmond notes, more than 16,000 evictions take place in Milwaukee every year.Īnd those relationships are often made difficult by the presence of landlords who make big money on inner city properties. What resulted is a vivid, complicated account of the unique ecosystems that form within areas stricken by poverty - where strangers become roommates to survive, then split just as quickly when arrangements become untenable. When University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate Matthew Desmond won a Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction Monday, it came as no surprise to anyone who has read his 2016 book "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City."Īs a graduate student in 2008, Desmond (who now teaches at Harvard) moved into low-income housing in Milwaukee and began documenting the difficulties poor people had keeping a roof over their heads. ![]()
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