Evicted : poverty and profit in the American city
Record details
- ISBN: 1432843389 (pbk. ; large print)
- ISBN: 9781432843380 (pbk. ; large print)
- ISBN: 1432843133 (hardcover ; large print)
- ISBN: 9781432843137 (hardcover ; large print)
- ISBN: 1432843133 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9781432843137 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9781432843137 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 1432843133 (hardcover)
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Physical Description:
687 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
large print - Publisher: Farmington Hills, Michigan : Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2017.
- Copyright: ©2016
Content descriptions
General Note: | Originally published: New York : Broadway Books, [2016]. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Cold city -- The business of owning the city -- Making rent -- Hot water -- A beautiful collection -- Thirteenth Street -- Rat hole -- The sick -- Christmas in room 400 -- Order some carryout -- Hypes for hire -- The 'hood is good -- Disposable ties -- E-24 -- High tolerance -- A nuisance -- Ashes on snow -- This is America -- Lobster on food stamps -- Little -- Nobody wants the North Side -- Bigheaded boy -- If they give momma the punishment -- The serenity club -- Can't win for losing -- Home and hope -- About this project. |
Summary, etc.: | Harvard sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they struggle to keep a roof over their heads. |
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Subject: | Large print type books Cities and towns United States Profit United States Poverty United States Eviction United States Low-income housing United States |
Genre: | Large type books. |
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