In an interview with The Atlantic, author Matthew Desmond expresses his goal of writing about poverty through the lens of eviction, focusing on relationships and interactions among landlords, tenants, and judges.[5] According to Desmond, evictions acts "as a cause, not just a condition, of poverty".[5] He picked the setting of Milwaukee believing that it captures a broad national experience from an under-represented urban city.[5]
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