For this week’s readings, I am going to focus on the issue of growth in cities and what I found interesting in Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond. According to the reading on The City as a Growth Machine by Logan Molotch, “one issue consistently generates consensus among local elite groups and separates them from people who use the city principally as a place to live and work: the issue of growth.” Meaning that the local elites in these cities are divided from those who are not considered elites because of the different ways that these groups grow. The growth of an elite may be drastically different than one who is not an elite. Molotch goes on to say that most of the time elites do not reach their growth
