The question of housing was always important in the poor communities. Most rents in the US are too high for them to pay. People, who live bellow the poverty line, often have to give almost all of their income to the landlord. So they stay without enough money for food, education and their children. For example, in “Evicted” one of the characters, Arleen, can’t spend time enough time with her children, because she needs to deal with housing problems and she doesn’t have enough money to buy good nourishment nor Christmas presents for her boys. When some emergency happens, the poor people become unable to pay the rent and often get evicted. How poor people deal with eviction? What are their relationships with each other and with the landlords? These questions Mathew Desmond is trying to answer with his book. …show more content…
However, sometimes his argument is hard to follow. Mostly, it is, because Desmond often changes his perspective from one character to another and uses different time tenses. Sometimes, because of it the reader has difficulties to understand about which family and which time period, he is writing right now. Also Desmond tries to suggest the solution to how solve the eviction problem. However, he presents it only in the very end, in the conclusion. By that time the reader can become boring and not willing to read ten more pages of basic poverty analysis. So it could be better, if Desmond would make his suggestions about the poverty solution not in the very end, but in several parts just in the middle of the text. So his analysis would be more related to the characters and the events around