KhizooologyEvicted
Housing instability can help produce the poverty it appears to reflect.
Big Idea
Desmond follows Milwaukee households to examine how housing insecurity can both reflect and deepen poverty.
Housing stability
Losing a home disrupts routines, schooling, employment, and relationships.
Economic pressure
Low incomes and housing costs leave families with difficult trade-offs.
Power
Landlords, tenants, courts, and public systems do not enter disputes on equal terms.
Cumulative effects
An eviction can make later access to housing harder.
Situated research
The account concerns particular families and institutions; it is not a legal guide for every jurisdiction.
Notooo Take
Look at the housing conditions around a hardship before assigning it to individual choices.
One Thing to Keep
Housing instability can help produce the poverty it appears to reflect.