Evicted, Matthew Desmond

Evicted:  Poverty and Profit in The American City by Matthew Desmond is a book that my wife saw and thought we should both understand how eviction is effecting America.

Started: 2/18/2020
Completed: 2/21/2020
Recommendation: Highly recommended
Recommended By: My wife

Review:

This is a hard book to read, pretty much nothing but sad.  Eviction is a horror.

These are individual stories.  This is a tiny fraction of the actual evictions that took place over the period the book covers.  Despite that, each story is characteristic of the broader issue and carries its own nuances.  These individual stories stand on their own, but as a spotlight illuminating a small subset, they give character to the whole problem.

Carrying the knowledge of what happens is hard.  It is our responsibility, however, as Americans.  Utah's Housing First seems like a good answer.  As important as healthcare, and maybe more important, housing issues need to be solved.  A cycle of evictions perpetuates a problem that could be stopped.