It Is Expensive to Be Poor: A Review of Matthew Desmond’s “Evicted”
In Evicted, Matthew Desmond demonstrates that the urban poor are not just victims of neglect but targets of persistent exploitation.
Topic
housing
“We are Humans and Not Dogs”
The South African government has delivered well over 3 million formal homes free of charge since the 1994 transition. But in post-apartheid Cape Town, many recipients of these houses are fed up. Rather than the endpoint of the post-apartheid urban crisis, deficient delivery reproduces it anew, accentuating discontent in the process.