You Know, I've Had a Pretty Rough Time of It.

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"I hope that we see housing rise to the top of the domestic agenda in 2020," he says. "We're not providing any recourse to folks who need housing." In Charlotte, North Carolina, court commissioners have a hundred-and-a-half hour eviction process because most people won't show up for it. The public defense is far from perfect; there's no such public defense in civil court, right? So if you have an eviction notice facing you, you have no right to an attorney and most folks that get an eviction notice don't show up to court.

Pulitzer Prize winning sociologist, professor at Princeton University and author of the book Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, Matthew Desmond joins Adam this week to discuss the physical effects poverty has on the people living in it, the lack of a national conversation about the housing crisis, and how the "American Dream" story is hurting us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.