The Basic Necessity of a Place to Live

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Lack of affordable housing is somewhere at the root of that issue, he says. "You need a roof over your head in order to sleep so you can go to work," LZ Granderson writes. The problem has spread and touched folks that didn't have to think about this problem in the nineties, Giffords adds.

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.