Beyond that, however, assistance programs fail the poor because they’re not always helpful to them. First and foremost, landlords don’t like it because they make money off of their tenants. There are many forces that work against the tenants in this book. Scott Bunker, a former nurse and drug addict in his late thirties eventually escapes poverty after living with his brother for awhile and getting another job as an orderly at the hospital where he used to work before being fired for stealing drugs from patients’ rooms. Another one is Lorraine Warren, a woman in her fifties who lives with various men throughout the story because she can’t afford her own place or even food at times. She was evicted from a trailer park on the South Side by Charney. One of them is Pam Reinke and her four daughters. In this book, there are many people who are not able to escape poverty. The Hinkston family lived in “The Rathole” which became more unlivable as time progressed. Lamar Richards was a double amputee trying to make ends meet for his family but could not do so. He visits Arleen Belle, who is constantly plagued by bad luck and Crystal Mayberry, who has an IQ of 70. He doesn’t pretend his tenants are anything more than a means to an end: money.ĭesmond follows a variety of low-income families to demonstrate the effects of poverty and eviction. The other landlord is Tobin Charney who also owns houses worth millions of dollars. At the same time, she sees herself as a victim of whatever forces are surrounding her-tenants, building inspectors, employees or legal systems. She seems like the American Dream at first, but as the narrative progresses readers discover that she’s willing to do anything to extract money from people around her: tenants and employees. One is Sherrena Tarver, who owns rental property worth millions of dollars and has become an entrepreneur from nothing. As a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin Madison, he lived among poverty-stricken renters in Milwaukee and studied both poor people and rich people involved with evictions.ĭesmond spends a significant amount of time detailing two landlords. He discovered that there was no statistical data or studies on the topic, so he decided to do his own research. After this section, there is an epilogue called “Home and Hope” which discusses what can be done to help those who are struggling financially around the world.Īs an undergraduate at Arizona State University, Desmond became interested in the subject of eviction. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of life that these individuals face when they’re evicted from their homes. The book is divided into three major sections with eight chapters each. It won a Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction, and it’s about the lives of people living with extreme poverty. 1-Page Summary of Evicted Overall SummaryĮvicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City was published in 2016.
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