Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Matthew Desmond, a Princeton sociologist, follows eight families in Milwaukee as they struggle to maintain housing. The book examines poverty and economic exploitation in American cities, offering perspectives on addressing housing instability in twenty-first-century America. Evicted won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, the Hillman Prize for Book Journalism, the PEN/New England Award, and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize. It was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Kirkus Prize. The book was named one of TIME's ten best nonfiction books of the decade and one of the New York Times's 100 best books of the 21st century.