These arguments are buttressed by other data sources as well, including surveys of renters and administrative records from housing court. Following the experiences of these research subjects over multiple years in Milwaukee reveals in painstaking detail the central importance of eviction to the contemporary experience of being poor. Unlike prior poverty ethnographies that focus on a particular neighborhood, this book shadows eight poor families, both black and white, and two landlords who rent apartments, houses, or trailer homes to the poor. Matthew Desmond’s Evicted is first and foremost an ethnography about the daily experiences of poverty with a unique focus on the causes and consequences of housing instability and housing quality.
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