Eviction is an issue of national importance, but it also plays out locally. Last year in Pima County, more than 13,000 evictions were filed in court and any more  happen that never make it to court.

In February and March, select Pima County Public Library book clubs will read Matthew Desmond’s Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, a book that will change the way we look at poverty in America.

The series will culminate with a community dialogue, “The Eviction Problem in Pima County: What can we do?,” led by Stacy Butler, director of the Innovation for Justice Program and founding member of Step Up to Justice.

BOOK DISCUSSIONS

Tuesday, Feb. 19, 10 a.m. – noon
Oro Valley Public Library (Registration is required for this event. Please call 594-5580)

Saturday, Feb. 23, 10 – 11 a.m.
Murphy-Wilmot Library

Thursday, March 7, noon – 1 p.m.
Joel D. Valdez Main Library

Monday, March 11, 1:30 – 3 p.m.
Dusenberry-River Library

PANEL DISCUSSION (You don’t need to have read the book to attend)

Thursday, March 21, 6 – 8 p.m.
Joel D. Valdez Main Library

This article appears in Jan 24-30, 2019.

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One reply on “Eviction Highlighted in Series of Library Events”

  1. I realized a long time ago that the US is a dog eat dog country where it is every person for himself. No other industrialized country on the planet has the poverty, ignorance, lack of medical care, of lack of caring in general. The US is a country more obsessed with guns than caring about their neighbor. The wealthiest country in the history of the world. yet cant afford to educate its young, care for its elderly, or make health care, housing and food rights that everyone deserves.

    I am not complaining for myself as I have always done fine. I leaned at a very young age how to become self employed and have been making a living that way for over 60 years. I still enjoy my work and make enough to enjoy live. I just have a sadness in my heart for millions who have not been able to make it and are simply pushed aside by a government obsessed with making sure the wealthiest stay that way and actually get wealthier on the backs of the common worker. America should be ashamed to call itself the land of the free, the great experiment, the exceptional nation, etc. Even Cuba, as poor as it is, offers one of the best health care programs in the world.

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