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Desmond is visiting our local bookstore tomorrow, which prompted me to pull this from my TBR pile and finally read it. It‘s unflinching and powerful. I‘m curious to see what his latest will offer.

Eye-opening account of poverty in America. The author focuses on how forced evictions drag the poor deeper into poverty and houselessness. Now I can‘t wait to read his new book this spring. #botm

Highly recommend. Desmond describes the lives of people in Milwaukee facing multiple evictions and their struggles to get out of poverty and the obstacles the housing system puts up. Told through personal stories it is clear that the author earned the trust of the people in the book. Should be required reading for anyone interesting in the housing crisis in the us and it‘s interaction with race and poverty. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Essential American reading. While I have an understanding of housing struggles in the US this book was well laid out and did a great job of using real people's stories to highlight and explain the eviction trap.
If I didn't hate landlords before this (I did) I certainly think much more poorly of them now. Half the things done by them in this book should be crimes. But Desmond does a great job laying out how even slum lords can be a grey area👇

#AlphabetGame Thanks for the tag @Allylu 💗 I couldn‘t decide between these two so I‘m sharing both! One is fiction and the other (tagged book) NF - both are FANTASTIC 🙌🏻

This Pulitzer Prize winning novel is a must read! Sociologist Matthew Desmond, seeking to understand the housing crises, follows eight families living below the poverty line in an effort to find how we as a country got here and what can be done about it. The individual stories are devastating but Desmond offers some hope in the end. 5⭐️

So, I almost always choose a book by its cover. I know you're not supposed to but I can't stop. So. If you're thinking this is a thriller, you'll be sorely disappointed. HOWEVER, it is a really good expose and commentary on housing inequality and how expensive it is to be poor. I definitely recommend reading it just to expand your mind.

I hope I am not exaggerating or selling this iconic and ground-breaking book short when I say my favorite part is “About this Project” which follows even the epilogue and discusses Demond‘s embedded research process which is filed with an essential and delicate empathy.

#Two4Tuesday

1. Evicted was really eye opening about what leads people to be evicted from their homes and the way our systems keep people from moving up. Highly recommend.

2. Not really. I wear green if I think of it. My ancestry is Irish but this holiday hasn‘t ever been big for us.

@TheSpineView

January #bookspinbingo board, read 5 books for the month. One bingo for the month

Very well written & throughly researched book about poverty & evictions. The author/researcher focused his work around the poorest neighborhoods of Milwaukee. I used to do home visiting when I worked in early intervention & have spent a lot of time in low income homes & section 8 housing. It was always hard to see what they were living through (mold, bugs crawling on walls, guns going off outside their doors-yes I‘ve been in homes at those times,

This was a really moving nonfiction book about eviction in Minneapolis. It was well written and kept me engaged even though it was really difficult to read about the difficulties people experience. I found the policy suggestions at the end of the book to be thought provoking and an important read.

Book 90/150.

I wish this were required reading for every person running for office in local government particularly (I‘d love to make my Town Council read it!) and every law enforcement officer and officer of the court. It‘s heartbreaking and humanizes our understanding of poverty. It‘s worth the pain this book will make you feel if we can come together and admit that the system must change and that affordable, sanitary, safe housing is a basic human right.

My irl book club‘s pick for May. I just started it and it‘s already breaking my heart.

Matthew Desmond went to great lengths to research evictions, and it really shows. By talking about individuals, rather than a large group, he is able to garner more emotion than I expected in what is essentially a research report, and keep me engaged even though some of the subject matter was challenging to process.

An eye opening book.

My thanksgiving reading.

#evicted #matthewdesmond this book was so good. This book was heartbreaking. The way the author told each of these individuals stories was genuine and honest. I highly recommend this book.

I feel angry, I feel sad, and I am still full of questions. I also feel like Mental health was left out of the equation, other than evictions lead to depression. So many of these people seemed to have previous issues and trauma that needed to be addressed.

#Scarathon2020 5pts for a non related book #TeamSlaughter @Clwojick

#KindredACat has an odd way off napping while I read. #bottomsup

1. Creepy
2. Vampire
#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView

A broken dryer, and my husband getting called to help a friend got in the way of #24b4monday. Oh well, I finished Queenie in less than 5 hours, I am happy with that. Happy Monday! @Andrew65

So many emotions around the stories in this book. I regularly wished they were fake or embellished because they are all so tragic. Poverty to homelessness is a terrible cycle and these people live it everyday.

This is our country

Reading this book for professional development before I go back to work at school the end of this month. Wow 😐

I‘d like to read, but Binx is lounging on my books. 🖤🐾
#catsoflitsy

And today I‘m adding a #BLMReadingList adjacent read, it is not by a black author, so will NOT count for those of you doing BlackPublishingPower. It isn‘t even specifically about race, but again like White Trash (I‘ll tag it below and posted about it the other day) it‘s about class and discrimination in housing and it‘s worth a read to understand city housing issues.

Looking forward to these two. #botm

Excited about my BOTM picks, especially since I haven‘t been impressed with most of the selections this year.

Puppy Winston is here to tell you we were able to confirm the #bookofthemonth add ons at the last minute.

Let us know if you'll be getting any of these!

https://stuckinthestacks.com/2020/05/29/book-of-the-month-at-a-glance-june-2020-...

#botm #booksubscription #bookstagram #bookishalgor #bookishalgorithm

Desmond relates the stories of residents and landlords of poor communities in Milwaukee who agree to let him follow them and respectfully observe the precursors and devastating aftermath of eviction. He lets these stories speak for themselves without editorializing and provides context by describing the history of present day dysfunction in rental markets. A must-read for anyone who wants to understand an important driver of inequality in the U.S.

Read it. That‘s my review.

A domestic violence call can result in a nuisance citation, which can lead to eviction. “Evicted” can be grim, but it‘s a very worthwhile read and of particular relevance right now.

Oh no! It‘s Thursday and I forgot to do this on Monday. Let‘s just pretend I have the day right. 😂

Book: Evicted
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Movie or TV Show: Edward Scissorhands
Singer or Band: Edie Brickell and New Bohemians
Song: Elastic Heart by Sia

#manicmonday #lettere @JoScho

Nurse nitpick: jugular vein, not artery. It‘s not a big deal & it creates the correct visual for the reader, but I was briefly ripped out of the story being told by the error. It also happens with TV shows & movies. What are some things that you nitpick in books or other forms of media?

I took a significant break from this book, in part because I went on vacation and didn‘t want to carry a hardcover book with me, but mostly because I got distracted by a bunch of fun fiction. I‘m looking forward to diving back into it, though I may set it aside again when books 2 & 3 of the Farseer Trilogy get delivered.

#7days7books

Day 4 ~ Books that changed me or left a deep impression upon me

Tagging @marleed to play along, if you want to.

https://www.citylab.com/equity/2020/01/moms-4-housing-eviction-oakland-homeless-...

#internationalwomensday

I just couldn't do it. I made it about 1/3 of the way through. I do think the book is important, but he follows so many different people and switches between them with no context, so I couldn't keep up with what was happening.

I understand now why this book received all the praise it did when it was released. The families and stories Desmond reveals about the tragedy of poverty and eviction in an American city were eye-opening, frustrating, and heartbreaking.

#Nonfiction2020 @Riveted_Reader_Melissa For my prompt on Something about Housing

This book blew me away. The author integrated himself into these families lives and did an exceptional job at reporting his findings so that the reader deeply cares about an issue that is so often easily ignored. It shows how the high cost of renting a home continues a perpetual cycle of poverty and has disastrous consequences for the whole family. It‘s heartbreaking, but one of the most important books I‘ve read. I can‘t recommend it enough.

I'm loving seeing all y'all's #Top10oftheDecade #NonfictionEdition! 😊❤️ Here are mine! I counted the March trilogy as one book. 😂 I started this decade 15 years old and I'm ending it 25 years old, so I picked only books that have formed who I am today and changed how I look at the world and directed my call to diaconal ministry in the church. Some of these could have easily turned into more than 1 by the same author, but I resisted! @Cinfhen

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Book review for Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
http://www.athinsliceofanxiety.com/2019/12/review-evicted-poverty-and-profit-in....
#athinsliceofanxiety #matthewdesmond #evicted #bookreview #poverty

My top 5 books of the decade (by genre) -- Nonfiction

Evicted is a heartbreaking look at several real families who qualify as some of the poorest citizens of the US. Poverty leads to millions of evictions each year, which leads to hopelessness & often crime & drugs. It‘s a vicious cycle affecting the children‘s lack of education, well being and stability.
Integrating himself amongst the families, observing their everyday life & interacting with each person gave the author a genuine perspective.

I decided to to a re-listen #buddylisten with you @Cinfhen 😘😘 Such a good, important book! 🎧 #audiobook

“It was easier to obtain opioids from your neighbors than a cup of sugar.”
Author describing a trailer park in Milwaukee. 😢😢😢
This book is heartbreaking and eye-opening.
What a vicious cycle of injustices.