Eviction Is Only Part Of The Housing Crisis
- Josh Stephens
- Jun 5, 2018
- 5 min read
I think I was the only reader in the country unmoved by Evicted, Matthew Desmond’s Pulitzer Prize-winning inquiry into the dark heart of America’s eviction crisis. I say unmoved not because I didn’t care or because Desmond’s work – a detailed, intimate ethnography of eviction in Milwaukee – wasn’t impressive. It was, and I do. I was unmoved by Desmond’s account of the horrors and injustices of eviction because I have never assumed that eviction was anything but horrible and unjust.
