Publications

Book
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences: Severe Deprivation in America, Volumes 1 & 2
Race in America
Desmond, Matthew, and Mustafa Emirbayer. 2015. Race in America. New York: Norton. Publisher's Version
The Racial Order
Emirbayer, Mustafa, and Matthew Desmond. 2015. The Racial Order. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Publisher's Version
On the Fireline: Living and Dying with Wildland Firefighters
Desmond, Matthew. 2007. On the Fireline: Living and Dying with Wildland Firefighters. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Website
Journal Article
Desmond, Matthew. Forthcoming. “Heavy Is the House: Rent Burden among the American Urban Poor.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.
Desmond, Matthew, and Carl Gershenson. 2016. “Who gets evicted? Assessing individual, neighborhood, and network factors.” Social Science Research, 1-16.
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Desmond, Matthew, Andrew V. Papchristos, and David S. Kirk. 2016. “Police Violence and Citizen Crime Reporting in the Black Community.” American Sociological Review 81 (5): 857-876.
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Desmond, Matthew, and Kristin L. Perkins. 2016. “Are Landlords Overcharging Housing Voucher Holders?” City and Community 15 (2): 137-162.
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Greenberg, Deena, Carl Gershenson, and Matthew Desmond. 2016. “The Disparate Impact of Eviction.” Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 53: 601-45.
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Desmond, Matthew, and Kristin L. Perkins. 2016. “Housing and Household Instability.” Urban Affairs Review 15: 137-62.
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Desmond, Matthew, and Carl Gershenson. 2016. “Housing and Employment Insecurity among the Working Poor.” Social Problems 63: 46-67.
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Desmond, Matthew, and Weihua An. 2015. “Neighborhood and Network Disadvantage among City Dwellers.” Sociological Science 2: 329-50.
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Desmond, Matthew. 2015. “Who Speaks for the Dispossessed?” Ethnic and Racial Studies 28: 1258-63.
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Desmond, Matthew. 2015. “ Severe Deprivation in America: An Introduction.” RSF: The Russell Sage Journal of the Social Sciences 1: 1-11 . Publisher's Version
Desmond, Matthew, and Monica C. Bell. 2015. “Housing, Poverty, and the Law.” Annual Review of Law and Social Science 11: 15-35.
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Desmond, Matthew, and Tracey L. Shollenberger. 2015. “Forced Displacement From Rental Housing: Prevalenceand Neighborhood Consequences.” Demography 52: 1751-1772.
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Desmond, Matthew, and Rachel Tolbert Kimbro. 2015. “Eviction’s Fallout: Housing, Hardship, and Health.” Social Forces.
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Desmond, Matthew, Carl Gershenson, and Barbara Kiviat. 2015. “Forced Relocation and Residential Instability among Urban Renters.” Social Service Review June.
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Desmond, Matthew. 2015. “Unaffordable America: Poverty, Housing, and Eviction.” Fast Focus: Institute for Research on Poverty 22: 1-6. Publisher's Version
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