Government,
Books
May 13, 2017
Poverty and housing policy in the US
Last month, "Evicted" received the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction and it is on the New York Times 10 Best Books of 2016. By Lawrence P. Riff
Stanley Mosk Courthouse
Lawrence P. Riff
Supervising Judge
Los Angeles County Superior Court
It's official: "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City" is a great book. Last month, it received the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction and it is on the New York Times 10 Best Books of 2016. The author, Matthew Desmond, a professor of social sciences at Harvard and former MacArthur "Genius Grant" recipient, posits that the modern phenomenon of mass evictions is less the consequence, and more the cause, of pove...
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