April 26, 2017
Wednesday’s Academic Roundup
- Matthew Desmond’s Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City is a triumphant work that provides the missing socio-legal data needed to prove why America should recognize housing as a human right. This Essay, titled Evicted: The Socio-Legal Case for the Right to Housing – A Book Review of Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, argues that Desmond’s mostly federal legal prescriptions are insufficient to help all Americans realize the full promise of the human right to housing.