{"id":282,"date":"2021-09-08T02:57:24","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T02:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/ReadingNotes\/?p=282"},"modified":"2024-05-07T14:19:11","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T14:19:11","slug":"tu-reading-reflecting-hiking-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/notes\/2021\/09\/08\/tu-reading-reflecting-hiking-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"BG: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, Matthew Desmond &#8211;short note"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-purple-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Tuesday, 7 September 2021<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last week saw the most recent meeting of the book club: we read Evicted. Evicted is an ethnography of people who are just a hair away from being homeless &#8212; they are spending a huge percentage of their income (often close to 70%) on their monthly rent; as a consequence, they have great difficulty meeting other expenses, as well as meeting their rent for future months, and experience great difficulty as a consequence. Entwined with this is that most of them have a lot of other problems &#8212; drug use bing the most common &#8212; that exacerbate their circumstances. The author suggests some policy changes &#8212; e.g., rental vouchers &#8212; that could make things better, but it&#8217;s difficult to see changes that will really enable &#8230; I want to say &#8216;these sorts of people,&#8217; which is not right, but it&#8217;s something like &#8216;people who have the range and magnitude of difficulties and dysfunctionalities described in the book; &#8211;the people discussed in the book to have good lives. We can make it less bad, but, in my view, that&#8217;s about it. <\/p>\n<p>Views: 7<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, 7 September 2021 Last week saw the most recent meeting of the book club: we read Evicted. Evicted is an ethnography of people who are just a hair away from being homeless &#8212; they are spending a huge percentage of their income (often close to 70%) on their monthly rent; as a consequence, they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/notes\/2021\/09\/08\/tu-reading-reflecting-hiking-writing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BG: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, Matthew Desmond &#8211;short note<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federate","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-notes","category-history-and-social-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3504,"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions\/3504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}