The Role of the Digital Divide in Poverty

Of the many points that Matthew Desmond makes about the impact that the lack of affordable housing has on the low-income families living in Milwaukee that he names in his 2016 book, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, the one that may have gotten lost, in his examining the dozens and dozens of available apartments these families call or visit in seeking an address to call their own, is that they conduct these housing searches without using the Internet. Statistically, Desmond notes in Evicted that “only 15 percent of black renters looking for housing relied on the…