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Matthew Desmond, a Harvard sociologist, recently won the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction for a book based on research conducted in Milwaukee. The book, "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City," studies the relationship between eviction and poverty through the stories of eight Milwaukee families, black and white, and two landlords involved with them.