Sherrena also rented to Lamar, a middle aged double-amputee with two sons, and Doreen, the matriarch of an extended family with ten members living together. Crystal, who lived with Arleen for a time, was a young, single woman with significant mental health issues. Arleen was a single mother who lived with her two young sons and, often, relative strangers with whom she shared housing to save money. They have a variety of backgrounds and life situations.
The tenants profiled are broadly divided into black residents, who rented from Sherrena, and white residents, who rented from Tobin. Given the poor condition and reputation of his park, Tobin was nearly forced by the city to evict all of his tenants and sell the property. The park was plagued by rampant drug use and its residents had few prospects for improving their situations.
He owned a trailer park on the city’s mostly white South Side. Tobin, the other landlord profiled, followed a similar business model. Sherrena was extremely industrious, spending much of her time driving between properties to collect rent, show properties to prospective tenants and address any issues that arose.While many landlords were fearful of renting to poor residents in these neighborhoods, Sherrena knew that it could be extremely profitable, particularly given that she was willing to forgo necessary but costly maintenance to her properties, when their occupants missed rent payments. One of the primary individuals profiled is Sherrena, who, with her husband Quentin, owned and managed dozens of rental properties in the city’s predominantly black North Side. Their landlords, by comparison, achieved significant wealth by renting homes to poor residents. All of the tenants portrayed lived in considerable poverty and faced a near constant threat of eviction. Crown, 2016.Įvicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond is a work of nonfiction that profiles landlords and tenants in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Desmond.
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