The lab determined that Richmond had the second-highest rate of evictions in the country in 2016. It reveals the impact of the nationwide eviction crisis that affects millions of families and has consequences - poverty, homelessness, educational disparities and health care among many others - for the wider community.Īfter “Evicted” shed light on the crisis, Desmond, a Princeton University sociologist, founded the Eviction Lab at Princeton, which built the first nationwide database of evictions. “Evicted” is an ethnographic study that follows eight families in Milwaukee as they struggle to keep their homes while falling deeper into poverty. “ Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City,” by Matthew Desmond, Ph.D., which was awarded the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction, has been selected as Virginia Commonwealth University’s 2019 Common Book.
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