![]() When I first met Arleen, she was living in a small apartment in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Milwaukee. If I had to answer this question in a word, it would be Arleen. Why did you choose to write about this aspect of poverty in America? To increase awareness of the critical issue, and Matthew Desmond’s research, the Utah Planner offers the following interview, which was published online at. With the federal moratorium on evictions and the $600 weekly unemployment payments having ended, that finding paints a stark picture of a nation veering toward financial precarity, Kriston Capps reports.” missed their rent or mortgage payments in July, and the outlook for August is just as bleak: One-third of renters said at the end of July that they had little or no confidence they could make their August payment, according to a Census Bureau survey. ![]() Following this discussion in July, Bloomberg CityLab published an article on Augthat highlighted nationwide concern with pending evictions caused by the present pandemic: Students and faculty in the City & Metropolitan Planning Department at the University of Utah recently read and discussed the 2016 New York Times bestseller and winner of the Pulitzer Prize Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond. ![]() ![]() A Conversation with Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted ![]()
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