It means that we need to get our tails down to that zoning board meeting on a Thursday night at eight o'clock and stand up and say, Look, I refuse to be a segregationist. I think that we need to think about our role and our complicity in maintaining those walls around our communities.”ĭesmond intends his work to be “a call to action. “That little regulation buried inside of our zoning codes really means that the only place poor families can live are neighborhoods of concentrated disadvantage, concentrated poverty, and that creates a level of disadvantage of a whole other order. “In most residential land in America, it's illegal to build anything except a single detached family home,” Desmond told The Vermont Conversation. Low wages are kept low for the benefit of the more affluent. He says that this problem is often especially acute in communities known for their otherwise progressive politics.
He argues that regulations ranging from zoning to environmental laws are being used to block affordable housing, a key factor that is driving the homeless crisis. He is a professor of sociology at Princeton University, a recipient of a MacArthur “genius” fellowship, and was named by Politico in 2016 as one of “fifty people across the country who are most influencing the national political debate.” That is the argument made by Matthew Desmond in his bestselling new book, “Poverty, by America.” Desmond won the Pulitzer Prize for his 2016 book, “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City," which was named by Book Riot as one of the 50 best nonfiction books of the last century. The answer is that, knowingly or unknowingly, many of us benefit from keeping poor people poor. the richest country in the world - have the most poverty of any advanced democracy? Why are homeless encampments popping up from Seattle to Burlington?
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