Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

This is an incredibly in depth book about how eviction just destroys people and who exactly it destroys. There is so much in here that seems so obvious, but is also no one wants to talk about. One comment Desmond makes shook me. It was about how black women experience eviction more than any other people in the US. He says something like how black men are being locked up in alarming numbers while black women are being locked out. He discusses how landlords are liable for how many times the police are called to their properties which means that women are either evicted because they were beaten by their partners or women didn't call the police because they are afraid of eviction. Then when women are killed by abusive partners police shrug and say, well they never contacted us for help. It's like this evil conspiracy set up to destroy women. But it's not hidden. It's right out in the open.

This was just so infuriating and left me feeling hopeless. Thinking about how it's such a small misstep, a small emergency that could bring anyone to this point. I read every single word of this book. I wanted to highlight passages and quote them everywhere I could. I want to throw this book at everyone who talks about welfare families. I want everyone to read this book.