Building Museum Exhibit Chronicles Scourge Of Evictions, Homelessness

An exhibit at the National Building Museum has been adapted from Matthew Desmond’s 2017 Pulitzer-Prize-winning book Eviction: Poverty and Profit in the American City into an “immersive” experience.

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First-Ever Evictions Database Shows: ‘We’re In the Middle Of A Housing Crisis’

Matthew Desmond estimates that about 2.3 million evictions were filed in the U.S. in 2016 — a rate of four every minute. “Eviction isn’t just a condition of poverty; it’s a cause of poverty,” he says.

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Who Is Continuing Martin Luther King’s Fight Against Poverty?

“… it is a cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.”

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