Assistant professor of sociology and social studies at Harvard. Writing a book on eviction and urban poverty.
Tags: Housing: Eviction, Poverty
Links: Just_Shelter | Princeton University page | (Current as of: August 30, 2020)
Matthew Desmond is the is the Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. After receiving his Ph.D. in 2010 from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, he joined the Harvard Society of Fellows as a Junior Fellow. He is the author of four books, including Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (2016), which won the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Carnegie Medal, and PEN / John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction. The principal investigator of The Eviction Lab(link is external), Desmond’s research focuses on poverty in America, city life, housing insecurity, public policy, racial inequality, and ethnography. He is the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award, and the William Julius Wilson Early Career Award. A Contributing Writer for the New York Times Magazine, Desmond was listed in 2016 among the Politico 50, as one of “fifty people across the country who are most influencing the national political debate.”
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Op-EdThe Rent Eats First, Even During a Pandemic
Matthew DesmondNew York Times (NYT)
August 30, 2020
Op-Ed
Tipping the Scales in Housing Court
Matthew DesmondNew York Times (NYT)
November 29, 2012
Our legal system extends the right to a state-appointed attorney to someone facing months or years of prison but not to someone facing months or years of homelessness.
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