Eviction and the Affordable Housing Crisis

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Eviction as a social problem is a completely unexamined issue in American life. Most poor renting families today spend over half of their income on housing. About 3.7 million homes in 2016 received an eviction filing that year. That's an incredible amount of instability.

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.