Joe Williams

Evictionland

This autobiographical, EHRP -supported story is both a reported story of people being uprooted from their homes due to gentrification and the reporter Joe Williams’ own eviction. The piece succeeds particularly, I think, because it’s personal and thickly informational. Indeed, I think it augments Matthew Desmond’s outstanding work on this problem in the book, Evicted , adding a wrenching memoiristic element.