LZ Granderson: Reading the account really made it clear how homelessness happens. He says people spend upwards of a month searching for a single room that will take them in Milwaukee. LZ: There's plenty of housing, but there's a lot of landlords that say no. "It's funny because this like grinds against how we kind of think cities work," he says.
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.
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