At the end of the book, Desmond advocates for housing vouchers.Discuss this demand-side policy and its strengths and weaknesses. How do housing vouchers differ from supply-side interventions?
In his book, titled “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City”, Matthew Desmond (a Harvard sociologist and 2015 MacArthur “Genius” Award winner) examines how the private rental housing market functions in the poorest neighborhoods of Milwaukee. He finds that families in poor neighborhoods spend most of their income on housing and eviction has become […]