You get the nice chair. You get the nice chair. Such an honor to be here in this book store which is so special to the city and people who love books. It is an honor to be here. Thank you everyone for coming out. Good to see people i love and the audience and friends. I appreciate you guys taking time out of your super busy schedule to hear me out on this one. There are two chairs. Two chairs. Teachers exist. They are empty. Lets do it. Lets just do it. Were solving problems. En to try to put myself into their everyday life but i knew if i would understand this connection between housing and poverty they had to respect me sublet to Eviction Court as well to buy and sell property and deliver groceries and collect rents. And this is happening was coming up with the questions , often does eviction happen . What are the longterm consequences . I wanted to study to a answer the question i found basically nothing there is no good data so i decided to give myself with the survey and over 100
American Civil Liberties Union Agreement what of harvard law school, he was president of volume 100 of the harvard law review some previous his latest book chronicles the Supreme Courts decision in 1927 to allow virginia to sterilize a young woman for eugenic reasons. It is called a book that takes to us a rarely remembered part heist. Cohens narrative of the thats enshined the practices is a pageturner, and the story it tells is deeply, almost physically, infuriating. Were very please to bring the conversation to Harvard Book Store testimony please join me in welcoming adam cohen. [applause] thank you very much. Its a pleasure to be here. Id like to thank Harvard Book Store for hosting a wonderful book store i used to spend a lot of time in when i was here in a previous life. And thank you all for turning out, including some old friends here. I had a book party in new york recently, and the invitation that went out automatically, as these things are now, said at the top imbeciles book
Poverty in america and the role that evictions play in those on the spiral of the downward edge. And it drawn comparisons to behind the beautiful forever is another powerful work in immersion reporting about party. The New York Times has called this an extensively researched vividly realized and above all all book adding that after evicted it will no longer be possible to have a serious discussion about poverty without having a serious discussion about housing. Desmond is the winner of a 2015 macarthur genius grant. He is also the author of several other books including on the fire line in which he chronicles the experiences of a fire crew in Northern Arizona or he is currently the john l. Loeb associate professor of social sciences at harvard and hes the codirector of the justice for poverty. Please help me in welcoming matthew desmond. [applause] you get the nice chair. Thats how works. If such an honored to be here in this bookstore which is so special to the city and special to peo