I really enjoyed this. I liked that he didn't pull his punches and wasn't afraid to place blame where he felt it should go. I like that he was in depth in what the problems were and how he felt they should be solved. I liked his specificity and how I left this book feeling like I learned something, instead of just hearing about how poverty is bad and a few general stats. I liked how he discussed how it's affected by systemic structures, like subsidized housing. I think it was a well written book by someone with a great deal of knowledge on the subject.

One of my issues is that I think a lot of his advice was overly simplified and much too broad. I didn't disagree with basically anything he said, but stating that the (or at least, a) main problem is that the rich don't pay taxes and the solution is to have the rich pay taxes, doesn't really accomplish a whole lot. Like yes, I agree, but that's not a very practical solution at this point. There are a thousand smaller steps in between point A and point B that we need to discuss in order for that to even be on the table.

I also didn't like the way he talked about Europe as a kind of utopia almost. It felt like he put western European countries on a pedestal, about how much better they are than the USA. I'm not one for American exceptionalism or anything like that, but European countries haven't solved poverty either. I just don't find that kind of thing helpful.

But I did overall really enjoy this. It was very worthwhile. I have heard his book Eviction is even better, so I'm very much looking forward to that one as well.