Millions of Americans are evicted every year — and not just in big cities
“An interview I did with Princeton sociologist and Macarthur genius grant winner Matthew Desmond a couple of years ago really stayed with me. He did a deep study of people getting kicked out of their apartments and there was a story of a family who got evicted because ambulances came too many times for a child with asthma. Desmond’s book ‘Evicted’ focused on Milwaukee, but he’s just released a new set of national data showing evictions around the country are comparable to foreclosures at the height of the financial crisis. “