Evicted

The exhibition is an immersive experience bringing our visitors into the world of low-income renter eviction. With unique design elements and striking graphics, Evicted challenges adults and youth to face the enormity of a difficult subject while providing context and a call to action.

The Museum is working with prize-winning eviction researcher and author Matthew Desmond, providing a way for more people to understand his work with families in the process of being evicted, landlords, moving companies, judges in eviction courts, and security teams. The exhibition brings visitors to the intimate, frustrating, painful, and often repeated process of losing everything—furniture, food, heat, school supplies—as a family starts all over, over and over again.

Visual info-graphics introduce thematic information such as the rise in evictions, the reasons for evictions in different markets, the laws in each state, and the number of low-income families in the private rental market. Evicted‘s historical context further examines the history of rent resistance and eviction struggles. A range of policy solutions and innovative measures that would bring needed change will prompt dialogue and close the show. In addition, education and other outreach programs to families, children, and teens complement the exhibition throughout its run, providing a forum for those closest to the crisis to make their stories heard.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website