Poverty and Profit in the American City
Blog overview
In this blog series we focused on the theme of our event with Matthew Desmond on July 4, 2018: home evictions. In 2016, 2.3 million people were touched by eviction, showing this to be not just a local or regional problem, but a nationwide epidemic that is as much a cause of poverty as a result. At the event, Dutch journalist Arjen van Veelen read a column about his time living in St. Louis, on which he based his new book ‘Amerikanen Lopen Niet’. In this blog series you’ll find an interview with Van Veelen, three segments of his book, an interview with Matthew Desmond, and a review of the exhibition at the National Building Museum in Washington based on Desmond’s book ‘Evicted’.
