With support from the MacArthur Foundation, Desmond designed a survey of tenants in Milwaukee’s private housing sector. Until Desmond’s work, which earned him a MacArthur “Genius Award” in 2015, no one had studied how eviction interferes with the lives of inner city, low-income renters, in particular black people. He watched their children, ate meals at their table, went to their funerals and even attended a birth. “We can’t fix poverty in America without fixing housing,” he said.Īs an ethnographer and graduate student attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 20, Desmond said he spent five months residing in a trailer park and seven months in a rooming house getting to know his neighbors in two of Milwaukee’s poorest neighborhoods. 16 in the Statler Auditorium, Desmond explained how eviction takes away a family’s home, school and community along with their furniture, clothes, mental health and jobs.
Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University.
When 70 percent of a family’s income is used to pay the rent and keep the lights on, eviction is inevitable, said Matthew Desmond, the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University, speaks Nov.
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