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Brief Summary Of The Book 'Evicted' By Matthew Desmond

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Housing is a huge part of the economy. Everybody a certain point in their life becomes a tenant or a homeowner.Recently, I read “Evicted “written by Matthew Desmond , a story of tenants and homeowners in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.Matthew narrates a story different families with various background, race, and needs. All those family faced a commonly problem which is an eviction.He conducts the research in 2008 and touched many aspects of the problem such as discrimination in housing,poverty and more. The author also illustrates a life of of eight families, some with children and other but with disabilities or addictions. The book evicted focuses on Arleen a young lady with two children that struggle to find an apartment to rent and to educate …show more content…

Most policies are made without precaution and the poor are the ones that suffers the most. In the book, Arleen suffered a lot while searching for an apartment because the landlords do not want to rent to families and that was legal. “When the Congress pass the Fair Housing Act in 1968, it did not consider families with children a protected class, allowing Landlords to continue openly turning them away or evicting them” Desmond(2016). Few years after Congress outlawed the housing discrimination including families with children but some landlords still reject them. Other landlords ask for a security deposit or fee in case of property damage. In many other part of the country the discrimination in housing continue to take effect and there were few court case Zasloff (2017) .The next audience will be landlords. Everybody at a certain point in their life was a tenant and based on the story that Matthew told us the landlords were evicting for randoms reasons. Some tenants like Larry in the book were willing to help with the maintenance of the rooms and more but are still get …show more content…

Arleen was looking for housing assistance and was told that the list is frozen. She ends up getting apartment elsewhere after multiple tries. Her son Jori switched school five times between the 7th and 8th grades. The socioeconomic status of Arleen affected Jori academic performance and conduct, he was in trouble many time and the situation keeps gradually become harder and

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