Steve Klamkin & The Saturday Am News

Matthew Desmond - author of "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City" was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. #WPROIn its citation, the Pulitzer judges described Evicted: "For a deeply researched exposé that showed how mass evictions after the 2008 economic crash were less a consequence than a cause of poverty." In September, 2016, Desmond was the keynote speaker at the HousingWorks conference in Providence.