Harvard University Eviction Urban Poverty Paper

Papers: The paper will test your ability to analyze theoretical arguments. You will turn in a short, roughly two-to-three-page response paper that addresses the readings of that theme. With regard to paper questions, I would like you to ask and answer a question about what you see as the most important ideas in the readings. Understanding the readings well enough to ask a good question about them is part of the assignment.

Those texts are:

Gateway Reading

Desmond, Matthew. “Forced Out.” The New Yorker, January 31, 2016. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/02/08/forced-out.

Theoretical Reading

Desmond, Matthew. “Eviction and the Reproduction of Urban Poverty.” American Journal of Sociology 118, no. 1 (2012): 88-133.