Matthew Desmond

Poverty, by America

In the prologue, Desmond relates the inquiry to his family’s loss of a home, questions he carried into college and graduate study, and his later housing fieldwork in Milwaukee. He says that even years of research and reporting left him searching for a clearer explanation of persistent hardship amid abundance.

Desmond’s retrospective self-account in the prologue; the career history and memories were not independently corroborated in this pass. · lines 140–150