Media and Interviews

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• On the Media with Brooke Gladstone, “The Scarlet E: Unmasking America’s Eviction Crisis” series, June 2019
• Fresh Air with Terry Gross, “First-Ever Evictions Database Shows: ‘We’re In the Middle Of A Housing Crisis,’” April 12, 2018
• The New York Times, interviewed for The Upshot, “In 83 Million Eviction Records, a Sweeping and Intimate New Look at Housing in America,” April 7, 2018
• The American Bar Association: “2017 Silver Gavel Awards: Winner for Books,” July 2017
• The Sunday Times: “‘Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City,’ by Matthew Desmond,” March 20, 2016
• TalkPoverty Radio: “‘Evicted,’” March 18, 2016
• Huffington Post: “How the Eviction Epidemic is Trapping Black Women in Poverty,” March 17, 2016
• Slate: “Why More Americans Are Getting Evicted,” March 17, 2016
• Vice: “Reviews: March 2016,” March 16, 2016
• Sapiens: “Out! ‘Curb’ or ‘Truck?,’” March 16, 2016
• Deseret News: “Why Eviction is a Cause, Not Just a Condition of Poverty,” March 15, 2016
• Alternet: “Matthew Desmond Will Change The Way You Related to America’s Poverty Crisis,” March 14, 2016
• Rooflines – The Shelterforce Blog: “Matthew Desmond’s ‘Evicted’ Supports, Challenges Housing Field,” March 14, 2016
• The Kansas City Star: “‘Evicted’ Author Matthew Desmond, Who Lived With Milwaukee’s Poor, to Visit KC,” March 12, 2016
• The Guardian: “Matthew Desmond: ‘I Want My Work to Bear Witness to This Problem That’s Raging In Our Cities,” March 11, 2016
• The New York Review of Books: “Kicked Out in America,” March 10, 2016 Issue
• The Chicago Tribune: “Matthew Desmond’s ‘Evicted’ Details Cost of Evictions on Milwaukee’s Poor,” March 10, 2016
• KCUR Radio Station: “‘Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City,‘” March 9, 2016
• The Diane Rehm Show –  Interview with Diane Rehm: “Matthew Desmond: ‘Evicted,’” March 7, 2016
• The National Book Review: “5 Hot Books: A Heartbreaking Account of Families Being Evicted, The Secrets of Being Productive, And More,” March 7, 2016
• Science of Us – NYMag.com: “What Happens to People Who Get Evicted Over and Over and Over,” March 4, 2016
• Vulture: “8 Books You Need to Read This March,” March 4, 2016
• Washington Post: “If You Lose Your Home, You Lose Everything Else, Too,” March 3, 2016
• Marketplace – American Public Media: “The Face of the Eviction Epidemic: Mothers and their Children,” March 2, 2016
• Christian Science Monitor: “‘Evicted’ Follow the Harrowing, Heartbreaking Cases of Eight Families,” March 2, 2016
• San Francisco Chronicle: “‘Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City’ by Matthew Desmond,” March 2, 2016
• Mother Jones: “Having Kids Makes You More Likely to be Evicted,” March 1, 2016
• The Atlantic: “America’s Insidious Eviction Problem,” March 1, 2016
• WUWM: Milwaukee Public Radio: “‘Evicted’ Book Paints a Heartbreaking Picture of a Milwaukee Under Stress,” March 1, 2016
• Journal Sentinel: “Sociologist: Amid Sea of Evictions, Landlords Pull in Profits,” March 1, 2016
• Washington Post: “Why Losing a Home Means Losing Everything,” February 29, 2016
• Next City: “Why Cities Need to Stop the Eviction Cycle,” February 29, 2016
• The American Scholar: “Taking it to the Street,” February 29, 2016
• Beyond Chron: “‘Evicted’ Vividly Portrays U.S. Urban Crisis,” February 29, 2016
• New York Times Book Review: Cover review by Barbara Ehrenreich, “Matthew Desmond’s ‘Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City,'” February 29, 2016
• The Boston Globe: “Eviction’s a Cause, Not Just a Symptom, of Poverty in ‘Evicted,’” February 27, 2016
• Star Tribune: “Review: ‘Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City,’ by Matthew Desmond,” February 27, 2016
• Journal Sentinel: “Sociologist Opens Door on Devastating Effects of Evictions,” February 27, 2016
• The New York Times Podcast: February 26, 2016
• NY1’s The Book Reader: “Book Review: Evicted,” February 26, 2016
• Huffington Post Blog: “When Surviving Isn’t Enough,” February 26, 2016
• Journal Sentinel: “‘Evicted’ Depicts Milwaukeeans Struggling to Find Affordable Housing,” February 26, 2016
• New York 1: “Book Review: ‘Evicted,’” February 26, 2016
• The Chicago Review of Books: “Matt Desmond Reveals America’s Housing Disaster in ‘Evicted,‘” February 25, 2016
• The Wall Street Journal: “No Shelter From the Storm,” February 24, 2016
• The Chronicle of Higher Education: “The Great Expectations of Matthew Desmond,” February 24, 2016
• The New York Times: Review by Jennifer Senior: “In ‘Evicted,’ Home Is an Elusive Goal for America’s Poor,” February 21, 2016
• The New York Times: “A Harvard Sociologist on Watching Families Lose Their Homes,” February 19, 2016
• Publishers Weekly: “‘Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City,’” January 4, 2016
• Kirkus Reviews: “‘Evicted,’” December 9, 2015
• MacArthur Foundation: “Meet the Class of 2015,” September 28, 2015
• Boston Globe: “Area Researchers win MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grants,” September 29, 2015
• Harvard Magazine: “Disrupted Lives,” January-February 2014
• The Christian Science Monitor: “‘On the Fireline’ Author Matthew Desmond Recalls Life as a Wildland Firefighter,” July 2, 2013

Articles by Matt

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• The New York Times Magazine, “The $15 Minimum Wage Doesn’t Just Improve Lives. It Saves Them,” February 22, 2019
• The New York Times Magazine, “Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Poverty. They’re Not,” September 11, 2018
• The Atlantic, “Where Have All the Rioters Gone?,” February 2018 issue
• The New York Times Magazine, “How Homeownership Became the Engine of American Inequality,” May 9, 2017
• The New York Times: “Why Don’t You Just Call the Cops?,” with Andrew V. Papachristos, September 30, 2016
• The New York Times: “The Eviction Economy,” March 5, 2016
• Huffington Post / New York Legal Assistance Group: “Guest Blog: The Eviction Epidemic In Our Midst,” March 4, 2016
• The New Yorker: “Forced Out,” January 31, 2016
• The New York Times: “Electing to Ignore the Poorest of the Poor,” November 17, 2015
• Institute for Research on Poverty: “Unaffordable America: Poverty, Housing and Eviction,” March 2015
• Aljazeera America: “Under Local Laws, 911 Calls Turn Domestic Abuse Victims into ‘Nuisances,'” December 8, 2014
• The New York Times: “Evictions Soar in Hot Market; Renters Suffer,” August 28, 2014
• The Washington Post: “Evictions: A Hidden Scourge for Black Women,” June 16, 2014
• The Journal Sentinel: “Domestic Violence Victims in Milwaukee Faced Eviction for Calling Police, Study Finds,” August 18, 2013
• The New York Times: “Victims’ Dilemma: 911 Calls Can Bring Eviction,” August 16, 2013
• The New York Times: “Fighting Wildfires, Processing Death,” July 6, 2013
• ABC Australia: “US still suffering worst housing crisis in 70 years,” March 20, 2013
• Books & Ideas: “Exploiting the Urban Poor,” February 18, 2013
• The New York Times: “Tipping the Scales in Housing Court,” November 29, 2012
• The New York Times: “Is Poverty a Kind of Robbery?,” September 16, 2012
• Chicago Tribune: “Housing Crisis in the Inner City,” April 18, 2010
• The New York Times: “A Sight All Too Familiar in Poor Neighborhoods,” February 18, 2010