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A Harvard sociologist examines the challenge of eviction as a formidable cause of poverty in America, revealing how millions of people are wrongly forced from their homes and reduced to cycles of extreme disadvantage that are reinforced by dysfunctional legal systems.—Baker & Taylor
"A meticulously researched look at housing insecurity and the cycles that perpetuate it. The stories of individual families make his critiques of the system hit home in a way that is hard to do with numbers alone. Desmond does his research in Milwaukee, but the conclusions can be applied to the country as a whole."—Submitted by Sarah K., Materials Handler
