Ezra Rosser (American University – Washington College of Law) have posted Exploiting the Poor: Housing, Markets, and Vulnerability (26 Yale Law Journal Forum 458 (2017)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
Matthew Desmond provocatively claims that landlords exploit poor tenants in his Pulitzer Prize winning book, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (2016). This essay celebrates Desmond's work and explores the exploitation claim, focusing on how landlords deliberately exploit vulnerable tenants and on forms of market-based exploitation.