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Identify the factors that contributed to the rise in the eviction rate of low-income families, according to sociologist matthew desmond's study starting in the mid-1990s

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The answers are stagnating incomes, rising rents, and reduced government rental assistance.

Matthew Desmond is an American sociologist who studied low-income families in the Midwestern parts of the United States who were evicted from their housings, more specifically in Milwaukee and Wisconsin. He published a book about it entitled Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City.

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