Arlington Reads: Matthew Desmond, Author of "Evicted"
 
Habitats for Inhumanity
Matthew Desmond, a Princeton sociologist and MacArthur "Genius,” is the 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City” (2016). Desmond takes readers into the poorest neighborhoods of Milwaukee and tells the stories of eight families who struggle to keep a roof over their heads as they face extreme poverty, eviction and economic exploitation.
The fates of these families are in the hands of two landlords: Sherrena Tarver, a former schoolteacher turned inner-city entrepreneur, and Tobin Charney, who runs one of the worst trailer parks in Milwaukee. In vivid, intimate prose, Desmond provides a ground-level view of one of the most urgent issues facing America today.
The 2018 Arlington Reads series features an investigative journalist, a Princeton sociologist turned urban ethnographer and a leading authority on housing policy — each telling stories of people’s hopes, dreams and losses in the imminent face of eviction, segregation and inhumane living conditions.
- Date:
- Thursday, May 17, 2018
- Time:
- 7:00pm - 9:00pm
- Location:
- Barbara M. Donnellan Auditorium
- Library:
- Central Library
- Categories:
- Author Talk
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