In virtually no time, landlords can own the properties free and clear and. A Contributing Writer for the New York Times Magazine, Desmond was listed in 2016 among the Politico 50, as one of 'fifty people across the country who are most influencing the national political debate. With Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, Matthew Desmond ( 2016) has written a landmark book documenting this precarity. Homes in Milwaukees poorest areas often can be bought for as little as 8,000, with rents running upwards of 500 a month. He is the recipient of a MacArthur 'Genius' Fellowship, the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award, and the William Julius Wilson Early Career Award. In his new book, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, Matthew Desmond, a sociologist at Harvard and McArthur Genius grant recipient, follows the lives of landlords and tenants in some. The principal investigator of The Eviction Lab, Desmond's research focuses on poverty in America, city life, housing insecurity, public policy, racial inequality, and ethnography. He is the author of four books, including Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (2016), which won the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Carnegie Medal, and PEN / John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction. in 2010 from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, he joined the Harvard Society of Fellows as a Junior Fellow. Desmond is the author of over fifty academic studies and several books, including 'Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City,' which won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, National Book Critics Circle Award, Carnegie Medal, and PEN / John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction. During Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. View featured article on : 'Eviction Lab examines the intersection of poverty and housing'

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