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Evicted
Bedrosian Bookclub Podcast
English - March 20, 2016 00:00 - 1 hour - 181 MB - ★★★★ - 29 ratingsSociety & Culture Arts Books citizenship governance literature losangeles publicpolicy urbanplanning book bookclub books cities Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Evicted is written by Harvard sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Award winner Matthew Desmond. It is being hailed as a "landmark work of scholarship and reportage that will forever change the way we look at poverty in America." In this engaging, heartbreaking book, Matthew Desmond follows families in poorest neighborhoods of Milwaukee to tell the story their lives depths of poverty. According to Desmond, evictions used to be rare - even in the most poorest areas of American cities. Today, most poor renting families are spending more than half of their income on housing. Evictions are ordinary, landlords buy the forms by the carton-full. As we see families forced into shelters, squalid apartments, or more dangerous neighborhoods, readers bear witness to the human cost of poverty—and the utter resiliency people in these situations must have to live each day. This discussion features Raphael Bostic, Liz Falletta, Aubrey Hicks, and Chris Redfearn. For links to some of the things we talk about on today's podcast, check out the showpage at: https://bedrosian.usc.edu/podcast/evicted/
Sponsored by the USC Bedrosian Center
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Recorded at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy
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