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🏡 Suburban Poverty

Stories that challenge the assumption that suburbs mean prosperity, illuminating the hidden struggles of families who can't keep up with the neighborhood's economic expectations.
Maid
by Stephanie Land • 2019
A single mother cleans houses while barely holding onto her own: life inside the working poor.
3.86
114k+
💰 Working Poor🧹 Domestic Labor🌫️ Invisible Labor
Maid Summary
Maid 89%
A single mother cleans houses while barely holding onto her own: life inside the working poor.
by Stephanie Land 2019
3.86
114k+ ratings
💰 Working Poor🧹 Domestic Labor🌫️ Invisible Labor
Hillbilly Elegy
by J.D. Vance • 2016
Poverty teaches a lesson that keeps you poor: your effort doesn't matter.
3.83
508k+
⛰️ Appalachian Memoir🏭 White Working Class🧸 Childhood Adversity
Hillbilly Elegy Summary
Hillbilly Elegy 89%
Poverty teaches a lesson that keeps you poor: your effort doesn't matter.
by J.D. Vance 2016
3.83
508k+ ratings
⛰️ Appalachian Memoir🏭 White Working Class🧸 Childhood Adversity
Evicted
by Matthew Desmond • 2016
Poverty isn't the cause of eviction. Eviction is the cause of poverty, and the market profits.
4.47
115k+
🏙️ Urban Poverty🏚️ Housing Insecurity✊ Racial Inequality
Evicted Summary
Evicted 89%
Poverty isn't the cause of eviction. Eviction is the cause of poverty, and the market profits.
by Matthew Desmond 2016
4.47
115k+ ratings
🏙️ Urban Poverty🏚️ Housing Insecurity✊ Racial Inequality
Gang Leader for a Day
by Sudhir Venkatesh • 2008
A sociologist ran a Chicago gang for a day. The books were cleaner than he expected.
4.07
26k+
🏙️ Urban Poverty📝 Ethnographic Fieldwork💰 Underground Economy
Gang Leader for a Day Summary
Gang Leader for a Day 88%
A sociologist ran a Chicago gang for a day. The books were cleaner than he expected.
by Sudhir Venkatesh 2008
4.07
26k+ ratings
🏙️ Urban Poverty📝 Ethnographic Fieldwork💰 Underground Economy
The New Urban Crisis
by Richard Florida • 2017
Why urban revival is driving inequality and pushing out the middle class.
3.49
1k+
🏙️ Urban Inequality🏘️ Gentrification📊 Economic Segregation
The New Urban Crisis Summary
The New Urban Crisis 88%
Why urban revival is driving inequality and pushing out the middle class.
by Richard Florida 2017
3.49
1k+ ratings
🏙️ Urban Inequality🏘️ Gentrification📊 Economic Segregation
The Glass Castle
by Jeannette Walls • 2005
She was three when her dress burst into flames. Her parents called it an adventure.
4.33
1.4M+
🏚️ Family Dysfunction🍺 Alcoholic Parent🚪 Escaping Poverty
The Glass Castle Summary
The Glass Castle 88%
She was three when her dress burst into flames. Her parents called it an adventure.
by Jeannette Walls 2005
4.33
1.4M+ ratings
🏚️ Family Dysfunction🍺 Alcoholic Parent🚪 Escaping Poverty
Poverty Safari
by Darren McGarvey • 2017
Poverty isn't just broke. It's trauma, addiction, and a mind that fights its own rescue.
4.01
7k+
🏚️ Urban Poverty📊 Class Analysis💊 Addiction And Recovery
Poverty Safari Summary
Poverty Safari 88%
Poverty isn't just broke. It's trauma, addiction, and a mind that fights its own rescue.
by Darren McGarvey 2017
4.01
7k+ ratings
🏚️ Urban Poverty📊 Class Analysis💊 Addiction And Recovery
Money Hungry
by Sharon G. Flake • 2001
Raspberry's money obsession is a wall she builds against the homelessness she barely escaped.
4.10
4k+
🪙 Childhood Poverty🏚️ Housing Insecurity😰 Financial Anxiety
Money Hungry Summary
Money Hungry 88%
Raspberry's money obsession is a wall she builds against the homelessness she barely escaped.
by Sharon G. Flake 2001
4.10
4k+ ratings
🪙 Childhood Poverty🏚️ Housing Insecurity😰 Financial Anxiety
Invisible Child
by Andrea Elliott • 2021
Born homeless in Brooklyn, Dasani gets one shot: a boarding school that accepts one in ten.
4.70
20k+
🏙️ Urban Poverty🛡️ Child Welfare🔁 Intergenerational Poverty
Invisible Child Summary
Invisible Child 88%
Born homeless in Brooklyn, Dasani gets one shot: a boarding school that accepts one in ten.
by Andrea Elliott 2021
4.70
20k+ ratings
🏙️ Urban Poverty🛡️ Child Welfare🔁 Intergenerational Poverty
Paper Girl
by Beth Macy • 2025
A Pell Grant was her exit from working-class Ohio. Four decades later, the road is closed.
4.02
11k+
🏡 Rural America👷 Working-Class Memoir🏭 Post-Industrial Decline
Paper Girl Summary
Paper Girl 87%
A Pell Grant was her exit from working-class Ohio. Four decades later, the road is closed.
by Beth Macy 2025
4.02
11k+ ratings
🏡 Rural America👷 Working-Class Memoir🏭 Post-Industrial Decline
The Human Cost of Welfare
by Phil Harvey • 2016
Welfare was built to end poverty. Its rules punish work, marriage, and saving instead.
4.45
20
🏛️ Welfare Reform📉 Anti-Poverty Policy💼 Work Incentives
The Human Cost of Welfare Summary
The Human Cost of Welfare 87%
Welfare was built to end poverty. Its rules punish work, marriage, and saving instead.
by Phil Harvey 2016
4.45
20 ratings
🏛️ Welfare Reform📉 Anti-Poverty Policy💼 Work Incentives
Improving Poor People
by Michael B. Katz • 1995
Why America keeps trying to fix the poor instead of poverty, and what history reveals.
3.83
12
📉 Poverty Policy🏛️ Welfare State🎯 Blaming The Victim
Improving Poor People Summary
Improving Poor People 87%
Why America keeps trying to fix the poor instead of poverty, and what history reveals.
by Michael B. Katz 1995
3.83
12 ratings
📉 Poverty Policy🏛️ Welfare State🎯 Blaming The Victim
On Paradise Drive
by David Brooks • 2005
The future is America's home: a restless chase that never ends, consuming dreams along the way.
3.58
814
🏘️ Suburban America🚗 Exurban Sprawl🧩 Social Fragmentation
On Paradise Drive Summary
On Paradise Drive 87%
The future is America's home: a restless chase that never ends, consuming dreams along the way.
by David Brooks 2005
3.58
814 ratings
🏘️ Suburban America🚗 Exurban Sprawl🧩 Social Fragmentation
All You Can Eat
by Joel Berg • 2008
America has the food to feed everyone. Why 35 million still go hungry.
3.88
137
🍽️ Food Insecurity📋 Welfare Policy🔗 Systemic Poverty
All You Can Eat Summary
All You Can Eat 87%
America has the food to feed everyone. Why 35 million still go hungry.
by Joel Berg 2008
3.88
137 ratings
🍽️ Food Insecurity📋 Welfare Policy🔗 Systemic Poverty
The Night Always Comes
by Willy Vlautin • 2021
A Portland waitress has one night to make a down payment or her family loses everything.
3.83
7k+
🪙 Economic Desperation🫂 Sibling Caretaker👩‍👧 Mothers And Daughters
The Night Always Comes Summary
The Night Always Comes 87%
A Portland waitress has one night to make a down payment or her family loses everything.
by Willy Vlautin 2021
3.83
7k+ ratings
🪙 Economic Desperation🫂 Sibling Caretaker👩‍👧 Mothers And Daughters
Ain't No Makin' It
by Jay MacLeod • 2008
One group believed hard work would save them; the other didn't. Class position decided their fates.
4.07
1k+
🏙️ Urban Poverty📝 Ethnographic Sociology⚖️ Class Inequality
Ain't No Makin' It Summary
Ain't No Makin' It 87%
One group believed hard work would save them; the other didn't. Class position decided their fates.
by Jay MacLeod 2008
4.07
1k+ ratings
🏙️ Urban Poverty📝 Ethnographic Sociology⚖️ Class Inequality
White Poverty
by William J. Barber II • 2024
America's poor are mostly white. The lie that says otherwise keeps the working class fractured.
4.28
719
🏚️ Systemic Poverty🔗 Racial Division💭 Poverty Myths
White Poverty Summary
White Poverty 87%
America's poor are mostly white. The lie that says otherwise keeps the working class fractured.
by William J. Barber II 2024
4.28
719 ratings
🏚️ Systemic Poverty🔗 Racial Division💭 Poverty Myths
American Made
by Farah Stockman • 2021
Three factory workers lost their jobs to Mexico. What they lost next surprised everyone but them.
4.31
1k+
🏭 Deindustrialization🏚️ Rust Belt👷 Working Class America
American Made Summary
American Made 87%
Three factory workers lost their jobs to Mexico. What they lost next surprised everyone but them.
by Farah Stockman 2021
4.31
1k+ ratings
🏭 Deindustrialization🏚️ Rust Belt👷 Working Class America
No Fixed Address
by Susin Nielsen • 2018
A twelve-year-old trivia whiz hides his homelessness, but a game show could unravel his secret.
4.22
6k+
🚐 Hidden Homelessness🧠 Parental Depression🤫 Family Secrets
No Fixed Address Summary
No Fixed Address 87%
A twelve-year-old trivia whiz hides his homelessness, but a game show could unravel his secret.
by Susin Nielsen 2018
4.22
6k+ ratings
🚐 Hidden Homelessness🧠 Parental Depression🤫 Family Secrets
All That Is Solid
by Danny Dorling • 2014
Britain has a third more bedrooms than people. The housing disaster is engineered, not inevitable.
3.55
144
🏘️ Housing Policy💰 Wealth Inequality📈 Financialization
All That Is Solid Summary
All That Is Solid 87%
Britain has a third more bedrooms than people. The housing disaster is engineered, not inevitable.
by Danny Dorling 2014
3.55
144 ratings
🏘️ Housing Policy💰 Wealth Inequality📈 Financialization
The Origins of the Urban Crisis
by Thomas J. Sugrue • 1996
Detroit collapsed from job loss and housing segregation decades before the 1967 riot finished it.
4.24
2k+
🏙️ Urban History⚖️ Racial Inequality🏭 Deindustrialization
The Origins of the Urban Crisis Summary
The Origins of the Urban Crisis 87%
Detroit collapsed from job loss and housing segregation decades before the 1967 riot finished it.
by Thomas J. Sugrue 1996
4.24
2k+ ratings
🏙️ Urban History⚖️ Racial Inequality🏭 Deindustrialization
Where We Stand
by bell hooks • 2000
Feminism and antiracism won't succeed until they confront the thing they most ignore: class.
4.24
3k+
🤝 Intersectional Feminism🏛️ Class Analysis✊🏾 Black Feminism
Where We Stand Summary
Where We Stand 87%
Feminism and antiracism won't succeed until they confront the thing they most ignore: class.
by bell hooks 2000
4.24
3k+ ratings
🤝 Intersectional Feminism🏛️ Class Analysis✊🏾 Black Feminism
American Apartheid
by Douglas S. Massey • 1993
The ghetto was engineered. Segregation, not class or culture, makes black poverty permanent.
4.13
2k+
🏠 Housing Discrimination🏚️ Urban Poverty⚖️ Structural Racism
American Apartheid Summary
American Apartheid 87%
The ghetto was engineered. Segregation, not class or culture, makes black poverty permanent.
by Douglas S. Massey 1993
4.13
2k+ ratings
🏠 Housing Discrimination🏚️ Urban Poverty⚖️ Structural Racism
Poverty, by America
by Matthew Desmond • 2023
Poverty in America persists by design, fueled by exploitation and welfare that flows to the top.
4.27
64k+
🏚️ Housing Exploitation🛠️ Labor Exploitation💰 Affluent Welfare
Poverty, by America Summary
Poverty, by America 87%
Poverty in America persists by design, fueled by exploitation and welfare that flows to the top.
by Matthew Desmond 2023
4.27
64k+ ratings
🏚️ Housing Exploitation🛠️ Labor Exploitation💰 Affluent Welfare
Class
by Stephanie Land • 2023
To afford college, she scrubbed toilets. The welfare office told her to drop out instead.
3.61
15k+
👩‍👧 Single Motherhood💔 Domestic Abuse Survival👩‍🎓 Poverty And Education
Class Summary
Class 87%
To afford college, she scrubbed toilets. The welfare office told her to drop out instead.
by Stephanie Land 2023
3.61
15k+ ratings
👩‍👧 Single Motherhood💔 Domestic Abuse Survival👩‍🎓 Poverty And Education
Life at the Bottom
by Theodore Dalrymple • 2001
Poverty didn't wreck the underclass. A set of ideas did—and intellectuals handed them down.
4.23
4k+
🏙️ Urban Poverty🏛️ Welfare State Critique🎭 Victimhood Culture
Life at the Bottom Summary
Life at the Bottom 87%
Poverty didn't wreck the underclass. A set of ideas did—and intellectuals handed them down.
by Theodore Dalrymple 2001
4.23
4k+ ratings
🏙️ Urban Poverty🏛️ Welfare State Critique🎭 Victimhood Culture
Shattered Nation
by Danny Dorling • 2023
Beneath every British crisis lies a map of inequality decades in the making.
3.97
119
🗺️ Regional Inequality📉 Austerity Politics🏚️ Welfare State Erosion
Shattered Nation Summary
Shattered Nation 87%
Beneath every British crisis lies a map of inequality decades in the making.
by Danny Dorling 2023
3.97
119 ratings
🗺️ Regional Inequality📉 Austerity Politics🏚️ Welfare State Erosion
The Color of Welfare
by Jill Quadagno • 1994
Racial backlash, not liberal ideals, unraveled the American welfare state, program by program.
4.16
90
🏛️ American Welfare State⚖️ Racial Inequality🌪️ White Backlash
The Color of Welfare Summary
The Color of Welfare 87%
Racial backlash, not liberal ideals, unraveled the American welfare state, program by program.
by Jill Quadagno 1994
4.16
90 ratings
🏛️ American Welfare State⚖️ Racial Inequality🌪️ White Backlash
In Our Hands
by Charles Murray • 2006
Eliminate every welfare program. Send every adult one check. It costs less and ends poverty.
3.74
290
🏦 Universal Basic Income📋 Welfare Reform🏘️ Civil Society
In Our Hands Summary
In Our Hands 87%
Eliminate every welfare program. Send every adult one check. It costs less and ends poverty.
by Charles Murray 2006
3.74
290 ratings
🏦 Universal Basic Income📋 Welfare Reform🏘️ Civil Society
The Lost and the Found
by Kevin Fagan • 2025
A reporter followed two unhoused people in San Francisco. One got out. The other didn't. Here's why.
4.27
912
🏠 Chronic Homelessness🏙️ Urban Poverty💉 Addiction And Recovery
The Lost and the Found Summary
The Lost and the Found 87%
A reporter followed two unhoused people in San Francisco. One got out. The other didn't. Here's why.
by Kevin Fagan 2025
4.27
912 ratings
🏠 Chronic Homelessness🏙️ Urban Poverty💉 Addiction And Recovery
Not Working
by D.W. Gibson • 2012
What a paycheck conceals: Americans on the identity, health, and dignity that left with the job.
3.68
60
🎙️ Oral History💸 Economic Precarity🔨 Work And Identity
Not Working Summary
Not Working 87%
What a paycheck conceals: Americans on the identity, health, and dignity that left with the job.
by D.W. Gibson 2012
3.68
60 ratings
🎙️ Oral History💸 Economic Precarity🔨 Work And Identity
The Promised Land
by Nicholas Lemann • 1991
The mechanical cotton picker displaced millions, and the cities they fled to were never the same.
4.24
798
🚂 Great Migration🏚️ Urban Poverty🧱 Racial Segregation
The Promised Land Summary
The Promised Land 87%
The mechanical cotton picker displaced millions, and the cities they fled to were never the same.
by Nicholas Lemann 1991
4.24
798 ratings
🚂 Great Migration🏚️ Urban Poverty🧱 Racial Segregation
In the Shadow of the Poorhouse
by Michael B. Katz • 1986
American welfare was designed to deter, not to help. The poorhouse closed; the logic stayed.
3.74
138
📜 Welfare History🏚️ Poverty Studies🔗 Structural Inequality
In the Shadow of the Poorhouse Summary
In the Shadow of the Poorhouse 87%
American welfare was designed to deter, not to help. The poorhouse closed; the logic stayed.
by Michael B. Katz 1986
3.74
138 ratings
📜 Welfare History🏚️ Poverty Studies🔗 Structural Inequality
A Childhood
by Harry Crews • 1978
By age six he had lived a lifetime. The writing was just aftermath.
4.34
3k+
🏚️ Rural Poverty🌾 Southern Memoir🩸 Childhood Trauma
A Childhood Summary
A Childhood 87%
By age six he had lived a lifetime. The writing was just aftermath.
by Harry Crews 1978
4.34
3k+ ratings
🏚️ Rural Poverty🌾 Southern Memoir🩸 Childhood Trauma
How to Kill a City
by Peter Moskowitz • 2017
Four cities, one playbook: policy and profit, not hipsters, push out the poor and replace them.
4.07
4k+
🏗️ Gentrification🏠 Housing Policy🧱 Racial Capitalism
How to Kill a City Summary
How to Kill a City 86%
Four cities, one playbook: policy and profit, not hipsters, push out the poor and replace them.
by Peter Moskowitz 2017
4.07
4k+ ratings
🏗️ Gentrification🏠 Housing Policy🧱 Racial Capitalism
No Shame in My Game
by Katherine S. Newman • 1999
The job everyone ridicules might be the best shot at dignity for America's working poor.
3.75
466
🧐 Urban Ethnography🧑‍🏭 Working Poor🍔 Low-Wage Labor
No Shame in My Game Summary
No Shame in My Game 86%
The job everyone ridicules might be the best shot at dignity for America's working poor.
by Katherine S. Newman 1999
3.75
466 ratings
🧐 Urban Ethnography🧑‍🏭 Working Poor🍔 Low-Wage Labor
Glass House
by Brian Alexander • 2017
Private equity bought a glass factory. By the time they were done, a town was destroyed.
3.91
2k+
🏭 Deindustrialization💰 Private Equity💊 Opioid Epidemic
Glass House Summary
Glass House 86%
Private equity bought a glass factory. By the time they were done, a town was destroyed.
by Brian Alexander 2017
3.91
2k+ ratings
🏭 Deindustrialization💰 Private Equity💊 Opioid Epidemic
Broke, USA
by Gary Rivlin • 2010
How pawnshops and payday lenders turned the working poor into a multi-billion dollar market.
3.71
1k+
🦈 Predatory Lending🏚️ Poverty Economics🚪 Financial Exclusion
Broke, USA Summary
Broke, USA 86%
How pawnshops and payday lenders turned the working poor into a multi-billion dollar market.
by Gary Rivlin 2010
3.71
1k+ ratings
🦈 Predatory Lending🏚️ Poverty Economics🚪 Financial Exclusion
The Financial Lives of the Poets
by Jess Walter • 2009
A broke financial poet facing foreclosure runs one last scheme: selling marijuana to his neighbors.
3.72
12k+
💸 Financial Satire🏘️ Suburban Dark Comedy💔 Crumbling Marriage
The Financial Lives of the Poets Summary
The Financial Lives of the Poets 86%
A broke financial poet facing foreclosure runs one last scheme: selling marijuana to his neighbors.
by Jess Walter 2009
3.72
12k+ ratings
💸 Financial Satire🏘️ Suburban Dark Comedy💔 Crumbling Marriage
Men Without Work
by Nicholas Eberstadt • 2016
Seven million prime-age men have quit the workforce entirely. The problem isn't a lack of jobs.
3.41
501
🏭 Labor Economics📊 Workforce Participation🏛️ Welfare Reform
Men Without Work Summary
Men Without Work 86%
Seven million prime-age men have quit the workforce entirely. The problem isn't a lack of jobs.
by Nicholas Eberstadt 2016
3.41
501 ratings
🏭 Labor Economics📊 Workforce Participation🏛️ Welfare Reform
America
by Chris Hedges • 2018
Addiction, casinos, and the death of work: the symptoms of late capitalism's terminal stage.
4.23
3k+
🛒 Late Capitalism🇺🇸 American Decline💊 Opioid Crisis
America Summary
America 86%
Addiction, casinos, and the death of work: the symptoms of late capitalism's terminal stage.
by Chris Hedges 2018
4.23
3k+ ratings
🛒 Late Capitalism🇺🇸 American Decline💊 Opioid Crisis
How the Poor Can Save Capitalism
by John Hope Bryant • 2014
The poor aren't a drain; they're an untapped engine. A blueprint for making capitalism include them.
3.99
210
🧠 Financial Literacy📈 Credit Repair🏦 Community Banking
How the Poor Can Save Capitalism Summary
How the Poor Can Save Capitalism 86%
The poor aren't a drain; they're an untapped engine. A blueprint for making capitalism include them.
by John Hope Bryant 2014
3.99
210 ratings
🧠 Financial Literacy📈 Credit Repair🏦 Community Banking
Angela's Ashes
by Frank McCourt • 1996
Three dead siblings, a father who drinks the dole, and one boy's plan to reach America.
4.15
661k+
☘️ Irish Memoir🍞 Extreme Poverty🍺 Alcoholic Parent
Angela's Ashes Summary
Angela's Ashes 86%
Three dead siblings, a father who drinks the dole, and one boy's plan to reach America.
by Frank McCourt 1996
4.15
661k+ ratings
☘️ Irish Memoir🍞 Extreme Poverty🍺 Alcoholic Parent
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem
by Gregg Colburn • 2022
Homelessness rates don't track mental illness or poverty. They track rent and vacancy rates.
4.21
1k+
� Housing Policy🏙️ Urban Economics🏘️ Affordable Housing
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem Summary
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem 86%
Homelessness rates don't track mental illness or poverty. They track rent and vacancy rates.
by Gregg Colburn 2022
4.21
1k+ ratings
� Housing Policy🏙️ Urban Economics🏘️ Affordable Housing
Demon Copperhead
by Barbara Kingsolver • 2022
Born to an addict mother, Demon navigates Appalachian foster care and the opioid epidemic.
4.46
828k+
🏔️ Appalachian Fiction💊 Opioid Crisis📖 Modern Retelling
Demon Copperhead Summary
Demon Copperhead 86%
Born to an addict mother, Demon navigates Appalachian foster care and the opioid epidemic.
by Barbara Kingsolver 2022
4.46
828k+ ratings
🏔️ Appalachian Fiction💊 Opioid Crisis📖 Modern Retelling
English Journey
by J.B. Priestley • 1934
Factories silent, towns hollow, but the people Priestley met in 1933 refused to vanish.
4.09
483
🏭 Industrial Decline📉 Depression Era👷 Working Class Life
English Journey Summary
English Journey 86%
Factories silent, towns hollow, but the people Priestley met in 1933 refused to vanish.
by J.B. Priestley 1934
4.09
483 ratings
🏭 Industrial Decline📉 Depression Era👷 Working Class Life
All Souls
by Michael Patrick MacDonald • 1999
His mother buried four sons. Southie's code demanded no one ask why.
4.09
14k+
🏙️ Urban Poverty🏛️ Boston History🍀 Irish American
All Souls Summary
All Souls 86%
His mother buried four sons. Southie's code demanded no one ask why.
by Michael Patrick MacDonald 1999
4.09
14k+ ratings
🏙️ Urban Poverty🏛️ Boston History🍀 Irish American
Where Tomorrows Aren't Promised
by Carmelo Anthony • 2021
Grief unnamed, a mother's open door, a blacktop sanctuary: surviving the projects before the NBA.
4.07
2k+
🏀 Basketball Memoirs🏢 Housing Projects⚖️ Systemic Racism
Where Tomorrows Aren't Promised Summary
Where Tomorrows Aren't Promised 86%
Grief unnamed, a mother's open door, a blacktop sanctuary: surviving the projects before the NBA.
by Carmelo Anthony 2021
4.07
2k+ ratings
🏀 Basketball Memoirs🏢 Housing Projects⚖️ Systemic Racism
Having Nothing, Possessing Everything
by Michael Mather • 2018
A pastor stopped tallying what his poor neighborhood lacked. What he found rewrote his calling.
4.39
241
🗺️ Asset-Based Community Development🏙️ Urban Ministry💰 Community Economics
Having Nothing, Possessing Everything Summary
Having Nothing, Possessing Everything 86%
A pastor stopped tallying what his poor neighborhood lacked. What he found rewrote his calling.
by Michael Mather 2018
4.39
241 ratings
🗺️ Asset-Based Community Development🏙️ Urban Ministry💰 Community Economics
Sidewalk
by Mitchell Duneier • 1999
Some of the most disorderly figures on the sidewalk are also the ones preventing real crime.
4.15
2k+
🛝 Urban Ethnography💰 Informal Economies🚨 Broken Windows Debate
Sidewalk Summary
Sidewalk 86%
Some of the most disorderly figures on the sidewalk are also the ones preventing real crime.
by Mitchell Duneier 1999
4.15
2k+ ratings
🛝 Urban Ethnography💰 Informal Economies🚨 Broken Windows Debate
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