Matthew Desmond Analysis

The author, Matthew Desmond visited Milwaukee to live with under privileged families to see how the eviction process takes place in America. Informing society and telling a first had experience that involved, evidence, research, and passion. With this in mind, he then wants to educate the public on how society can change and make poverty less of an issue in America today.

Desmond uses living with these poor families, watching the struggle, kids suffer, and then eventually get evicted, as evidence. By using personal experience of physically watching these people get their lives taken from them is powerful evidence. Desmond lived with several different families, living at their level of poverty to an extent. He would eat and pay for these families

Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard and the co-director of the Justice and Poverty Project. He is well qualified and uses valuable evidence to back his purpose even further. In addition, his purpose is to inform society that it is wrong to let anyone live in poverty and no one should ever have to go without anything. Desmond also informs the public of the people who make these under privileged people and families worse than they should be. Numerous landlords abuse their power and are heartless, greedy, and disgusting. To take advantage of these people who are living in poverty just so the landlord can succeed and earn more money just goes to show how our country is so cultured around money. No one should let people and kids go without food, heat, or shelter, yet people still don’t care enough to help. Desmond uses his experience living with these families to show how bad it really is and that society should try and make poverty less of an issue in America.

Desmond is privileged in many ways, he is a white American male, is a professor at Harvard, and it is more than likely, that he is financially stable. Provided that the landlord knew that Desmond looked more stable, he was shown the other unit. Sometimes one can act as if they have less but in reality it’s not just the close you wear it’s the look in your eye that shows how desperate you are, how there’s little left to give. Due to Desmond

Children who live in an unsafe neighborhood, tend to stay inside more often, not being allowed to be outside, they tend to wreck stuff in the home. Landlords do not like tenants who have children, they are not inclined to let a person live there if they have children. Several people who live in poverty, are less likely to stay in one place. Equally, moving from place to place means moving schools. Children who have to move to various school numerous times a school year struggle with many obstacles. They suffer with adjusting to the curriculum, teachers, bullying, the school system, as well as making friends. Resulting in potential behavioral issues and not getting a proper education throughout their life. Desmond advises that communities step in and help children and young teenagers have a better education so they, as adults, will not have to live in