“Evicted”, an ethnographic study of tenants in low-income housing (2016)
Important frame to consider, here in the comments: we&#x27;re all reacting to an article that&#x27;s reviewing a book. A long work of sociology.<p>So the article isn&#x27;t the ground truth; it&#x27;s a tiny digest, plus a reaction by the article&#x27;s author. The book itself is a project of research, which also isn&#x27;t ground truth. But they bring up provocative points that most people haven&#x27;t considered.<p>And in some cases, won&#x27;t consider. If your mental model for how the economy works somehow doesn&#x27;t allow the situations described in the book or article, I&#x27;d hazard to say it&#x27;s your mental model that&#x27;s in error.