![]() ![]() It’s an impassioned manifesto-I’d almost call it a jeremiad-in support of what he calls “poverty abolitionism.” It’s short, punchy, angry, urgent, sometimes self-indulgent and as broad as his earlier work was subtle. His new book, Poverty, by America, feels like it was written by a different author. ![]() It changed the way I think about housing. It answered a question I’ve long wondered-why rent in the low-income areas of a community isn’t much lower than in other areas-and does so in a way that doesn’t rely on easy heroes and villains. ![]() Desmond lived in low-income housing and got to know both tenants and landlords, and the book reflects studied attention. It was a methodical, careful, detailed, relatively restrained account of the ways that evictions of low-income tenants actually reinforce their poverty. Matthew Desmond’s previous book, Evicted, was remarkable. ![]()
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