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Legal Responses to the Crisis of Forced Moves Illustrated in Evicted

Laurie Ball Cooper

Matthew Desmond’s Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City combines compelling narratives that illustrate many of the barriers to housing for individuals in poverty with quantitative data that speaks to the scope of the housing crisis in urban America. This Essay addresses what may be a lawy…