Evicted Poverty and Profit in the American City

He's author of the Pulitzer Prizewinning Evicted. And Evicted, which was a book about housing markets, particularly for the poor, it was a smash hit.

And that brings up the book that other people may know you for earlier, Evicted.

His books include Evicted Poverty and Profit in the American City

So you write this great book, Evicted

You left Evicted still with this question

One of his famous quotes, he says, in this country, poor Black men are locked up and poor Black women are locked out.

One of the things that he is also been saying quite a bit is the importance of the linkage between housing and criminal justice. And the fact that one of his famous quotes, he says, in this country, poor Black men are locked up and poor Black women are locked out.

One of his famous quotes, he says, in this country, poor Black men are locked up and poor Black women are locked out.

I don't know if you've ever read the book Evicted.

Evicted, I think, is a fascinating and heartbreaking exploration into poverty in the United States and how not having a stable housing situation, not knowing that there's a place that you can come home to every day, really disrupts the development of children because they're constantly inflexed, whether that's not knowing where they're going to live or going into an unhoused situation, etc., etc.

This book that we've talked about before called Evicted that goes through this psychological and social and emotional impact of growing up in a really financially limited setting where you're constantly being evicted.

And now all of a sudden, I think a pioneer work about eviction was a book evicted by a researcher and a professor from Princeton, Matthew Desmond, who, if I have the number right, I think he looked at eviction at a number of different cities across the country and found that at least in one of them, the average cost of, the average amount that somebody was behind in their rent for which necessitated an eviction or eviction proceedings were filed was like 50 bucks.