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About Matthew Desmond
American sociologist
Matthew Desmond is an American sociologist and professor at Princeton University. He is known for his work on housing, poverty, and inequality, and for leading the Eviction Lab there. At Princeton, he serves as the Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology and as principal investigator of the Eviction Lab. He was formerly the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University, and was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2022.
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- “Losing a home sends families to shelters, abandoned houses, and the street.”Matthew Desmond
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- “I had come to college believing in a story that if you worked hard, the American dream was reachable.”Matthew Desmond
- “Hundreds of data-mining companies sell landlords tenant-screening reports that list past evictions and court…”Matthew Desmond
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Books by Matthew Desmond
Evicted
2017
Race in America
2016