Evicted

书名：EvictedPovertyandProfitintheAmericanCity
作者：MatthewDesmond
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ISBN：9780553447439
出版社：Crown
出版时间：2016-3-1
格式：epub/mobi/azw3/pdf
页数：432
豆瓣评分： 8.7

书籍简介：

From Harvard sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond, a landmark work of scholarship and reportage that will forever change the way we look at poverty in America In this brilliant, heartbreaking book, Matthew Desmond takes us into the poorest neighborhoods of Milwaukee to tell the story of eight families on the edge. Arleen is a single mother trying to raise her two sons on the $20 a month she has left after paying for their rundown apartment. Scott is a gentle nurse consumed by a heroin addiction. Lamar, a man with no legs and a neighborhood full of boys to look after, tries to work his way out of debt. Vanetta participates in a botched stickup after her hours are cut. All are spending almost everything they have on rent, and all have fallen behind. The fates of these families are in the hands of two landlords: Sherrena Tarver, a former schoolteacher turned inner-city entrepreneur, and Tobin Charney, who runs one of the worst trailer parks in Milwaukee. They loathe some of their tenants and are fond of others, but as Sherrena puts it, “Love don’t pay the bills.” She moves to evict Arleen and her boys a few days before Christmas. Even in the most desolate areas of American cities, evictions used to be rare. But today, most poor renting families are spending more than half of their income on housing, and eviction has become ordinary, especially for single mothers. In vivid, intimate prose, Desmond provides a ground-level view of one of the most urgent issues facing America today. As we see families forced into shelters, squalid apartments, or more dangerous neighborhoods, we bear witness to the human cost of America’s vast inequality—and to people’s determination and intelligence in the face of hardship. Based on years of embedded fieldwork and painstakingly gathered data, this masterful book transforms our understanding of extreme poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving a devastating, uniquely American problem. Its unforgettable scenes of hope and loss remind us of the centrality of home, without which nothing else is possible.

作者简介：

Matthew Desmond is an American sociologist and urban ethnographer. He is currently the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University and Co-Director of the Justice and Poverty Project. The author of several books, including the award-winning book, "On the Fireline," and "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City," Desmond was awarded a MacArthur "Genius" grant in 2015 for his work on poverty in America.

书友短评：

@ 抽抽经会被虐 丧到不行的田野研究。没有作者的亲身研究，恐怕普通民众对于1%的贫困人民的生活实在无法想象。驱逐带来的身心疲惫，往往附加着心理创伤，丢失工作和仅有的财产。同理心在此时往往显得过于渺小，而司法部门亦无法保证贫困人民的基本权利。结尾作者推广住房权利，让贫困家庭拿到津贴。在这有个小小的疑问，书中所选取的主人公都偏弱势（单亲母亲，断腿男人。。），但是贫困家庭也同样存在着一部分暴力群体男性，靠榨取女性为生。书中经常有提到描写说某某男人跑了，给她留下了n个孩子的，如果说住房权利推广也涵盖这一部分男性，那会不会变成他们继续以此谋生的手段呢? @ 蘑菇 从前总是嘲笑和不解马路边上的Homeless， 挺大的人为什么不能自食其力找份工作，为什么不能回自己的父母家住，难道父母就不能在他们艰难的时候给给个一席之地？后来渐渐了解到，他们未必和自己的父母有联系，未必认识自己的父母，或者他们的父母也根本就没有住所。 书中多次谈到黑人未婚单身母亲占被evicted 的大多数，她们中很多自己就没有享受过父母的爱。最近听说一个理论，在童年时期被父母抛弃的孩子，会比其他同龄人更早生小孩。很多是在懵懂的青少年时期，因为想要有一个彼此关爱，彼此需要的对象，但是生了小孩后，才发现，她们需要全心全意的付出和关爱小孩，于是很多人又抛弃了她们自己的孩子。虽然这本书没有谈到相关问题，但是也可以是发现问题的一个出口吧。 @ · 既做過租客又做過房東的我，看這本書讓我一再陷入深思。不同的個案，能夠讓人更清楚瞭解窮人租房難的種種，作者穿插的對政策的解釋也讓人瞭解到問題背後的矛盾和可能的根源。我同意作者說的，每一個人都應該有體面居住的權利，我也真心為無家可歸的人難過。書讓我第一次瞭解到，租給窮人/貧民區的利潤如此的高，難過像香港那種劏房那麽普遍。作者提到可能的解決方法，就是政府提供house voucher。我覺得人口問題和城市過度發展也是根源之一，西方政府幾乎不對此作為，書也沒討論人口問題和城市規劃，可能不是作者專長吧。稍後再整理一下筆記和思考。 @ BigGuGuSeal Research里称得上优秀的纪实文学了，可以结合《贫穷的本质》一起看。真的应了W老师那句话，人活到这个年纪已经具有足够的能力来判断了，问题是体制还是个人导致的。通常体制通过庞大的模糊焦点的运转方式努力不让你这么判断，因为不断分化我们的好处显而易见。说白了我们都是底层，有共通的诉求和情感，人和人的差异并没有那么大，就这还不互相体谅、放下假象和憎恶，只能是毫无出路的。要是对这书感兴趣看完还觉得不够的，推荐去听听George Carlin对社会百态辛辣又幽默的评论。 @ 车瑞希 那么多的人努力，仅仅是为了生存；为什么穷还吸毒，只是因为这对他们来说是affordable trips。如果说《Sidewalk》写的是城市各个角落的人依托着各种niche城市资源做出nothing to lose的选择，那么《Evicted》说的没有选择。 @ 木山水 大一为完成何宁老师布置的任务整个寝室挑灯夜读。现在想起来恍如隔世 @ 马里兰蓝蟹 和《贫穷的本质》一起读收获很大，在此之前虽然做过一些Pro Bono但是大部分客户都不像书中这样居无定所，家中没有煤气水电，陷入毒品和酒精的陷阱。这本书很好地围绕着住房这个问题揭露了这些人的困境，最后的解决方法也是“政府需要正视这个问题帮助他们”。读这个问题的书总有一种矛盾的感觉，一方面这些人自己身上有很大的问题，但是另一方面这些问题全部都是由他们的环境，家庭，缺失的教育和居住环境构成的。 @ shingeki 底层租房问题的记述，小说般的叙事手法可读性很强

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