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• Evicted

  Poverty and Profit in the American City

  Desmond, Matthew,

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  Matthew Desmond’s Evicted Just Won the Pulitzer for Nonfiction. It’s All Housing Advocates Can Talk About. Op-Ed piece in the New York Times available on…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Poverty, by America

  Desmond, Matthew,

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  "Pulitzer winner Desmond follows up Evicted with a powerful inquiry into why the U.S. is "the richest country on earth, with more poverty than any other advanced democracy." Publisher's Weekly

• The Public

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  Screening event 5/19/2025:…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• City of Chicago :: Know Your Rights: Eviction and Lockout Resources

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  City of Chicago resources for tenants.

• City of Chicago: Renter's Rights

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  Learn about the rights and responsibilities of renters and landlords under Chicago law and learn about valuable resources to promote housing stability.

• Why Eviction Matters | Eviction Lab

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  Learn about eviction, its effects, and why it matters. Research page: https://evictionlab.org/research/

• Family Properties

  Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America

  Satter, Beryl, 1959-

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  "Drawing on the story of her father, a crusading attorney, Satter details how how slumlords and government itself kept blacks out of white Chicago neighborhoods while also exploiting them financially. "

• Abolish Rent

  How Tenants Can Solve the Housing Crisis

  Rosenthal, Tracy,

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• The Color of Law

  a Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

  Rothstein, Richard,

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• Crossing the Class and Color Lines

  From Public Housing to White Suburbia

  Rubinowitz, Leonard S.

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  "From 1976 to 1998, the Gautreaux Assisted Housing Program moved over 7,000 low-income black families from Chicago's inner city to middle-class white suburbs--the largest and longest-running residential, racial, and economic integration effort in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Not a Crime to Be Poor

  the Criminalization of Poverty in America

  Edelman, Peter B.,

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  "Edelman argues that legal system fines and fees for minor infractions end up putting poor people in jail, making it even harder for them to escape poverty."

• The Truly Disadvantaged

  the Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy

  Wilson, William J., 1935-

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  The author draws a connection"between the declining economic fortunes of young black men and the explosive growth in the number of black families headed by single women"

• Nickel and Dimed

  on (not) Getting by in America

  Ehrenreich, Barbara

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  Excellent undercover journalist who lived the barely scraping by life to write this book.

• $2.00 a Day

  Living on Almost Nothing in America

  Edin, Kathryn, 1962-

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  This book enumerates the heartbreaking strategies poor people in Cleveland, Chicago and Mississippi use to survive with almost no cash.

• Nomadland

  Surviving America in the Twenty-first Century

  Bruder, Jessica,

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  "People, many of them seniors, who've lost their homes through job loss, debt or personal problems, live in their cars or cheap campers as they move around the country, finding seasonal work. "

• Janesville

  An American Story

  Goldstein, Amy, 1957-

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• How the Other Half Lives

  Studies Among the Tenements of New York

  Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August), 1849-1914

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  Jacob Riis' late 19th c photos of the poor living in filth in New York City sparked some movement towards improvements.

• High Rise Stories

  Voices From Chicago Public Housing

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  "In the gripping first-person accounts of High Rise Stories, former residents of Chicago's iconic public housing projects describe life in the now-demolished high rises. These stories of community, displacement, and poverty in the wake of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• High-risers

  Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing

  Austen, Ben,

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  "High-Risers braids personal narratives, city politics, and national history to tell the timely and epic story of Chicago's Cabrini-..."

• The Politics of Public Housing

  Black Women's Struggles Against Urban Inequality

  Williams, Rhonda Y.

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  "Black women have traditionally represented the canvas on which many debates about poverty and welfare have been drawn. For a quarter century after the publication of the notorious Moynihan report, poor black women were tarred with the same brush:…Read moreRead more of this annotation