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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

21 March 2016

Speaker: Professor Matthew Desmond (Harvard University)
Chair: Dr Michael McQuarrie (LSE Dept of Sociology)

MacArthur 'Genius' award winning ethnographer Matthew Desmond speaks about his investigation into the low-income rental market and eviction in privately owned housing, and argues it is a cause, not just a symptom, of poverty.

He explores how struggling families survive and how entrenched poverty and racial inequality are built and sustained by housing policies in large cities.

Listen below:

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