EVICTED A Complete Summary Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City is a book written by Matthew Desmond. The book is, as its title suggests, about eviction and the 'side-effects' that eviction can cause to a person or to a number of persons. The significance of eviction, the poverty and the loss of everything that a person once knew creates a strong, enormous emotional impact on a person. When someone loses his home it is hard, if ever possible...