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I’m Matthew Desmond, a sociologist at Princeton and author of Evicted and Poverty, by America. Ask me anything about poverty, public policy, the housing crisis … or, you know, anything. : books

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I’m Matthew Desmond, a sociologist at Princeton and author of Evicted and Poverty, by America. Ask me anything about poverty, public policy, the housing crisis … or, you know, anything. : books

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