Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond

BATB score: 10/10 🏠🏚🛖

wow just wow. 2017 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Bill Gates' recommended read wow just wow.

Best to: sociologist Matthew Desmond worked his ass off for this book! his hands-on on-ground research to share the stories of 8 struggling families evicted and in deep poverty in Milwaukee 👏 in-depth data collection from years of observations, surveys, and interviews then written in such an emotionally touching book with a little bit of psychological analysis - wow just wow 🤩

Best for: if you think your life is difficult, these struggling families had the worst life challenges; the emotional toll that comes with each surprised eviction just really freak you up, honestly, how to do stay calm, think straight, and get out of this deep shit... omg I can not 🥹 my heart is broken into a million pieces 💔

Best as: how the USA 'Care' Act that was meant to be of support for the people most in need ended up messing up the people most in need into deeper shithole - when life gets tough, it will get tougher 😔

Best quotes: "The key link in a perpetual slum is that too many people move out of it too fast - and in the meantime dream of getting out."

"Poor black men were locked up. Poor black women were locked out."

"A community that saw so clearly its own pain had a difficult time also sensing its potential."

“No one thought the poor more undeserving than the poor themselves.”

"She was teaching her sons to love small, to reject what they could not have."

"Eviction is a cause, not just a condition, of poverty."