Do we believe housing is a right and that affordable housing is part of what it should mean to be an American?… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
I don't think that you can address poverty unless you address the lack of affordable housing in the cities. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“Affordable housing is a human-capital investment, just like job programs or education, one that would strengthen and steady the American workforce.” — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
The standard of 'affordable' housing is that which costs roughly 30 percent or less of a family's income. Because of rising housing… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“They have shown that problems endemic to poverty—residential instability, severe deprivation, concentrated neighborhood disadvantage, health disparities, even joblessness—stem from the lack of… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“A problem as big as the affordable-housing crisis calls for a big solution. It should be at the top of America's domestic-policy… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
We can start with housing, the sturdiest of footholds for economic mobility. A national affordable housing program would be an anti-poverty effort,… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
I don't think we can fix poverty without fixing housing, and I don't think we can address housing without understanding landlords. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share
If we continue to tolerate this level of poverty in our cities, and go along with eviction as commonplace in poor neighborhoods, it's not… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share
You see one eviction, and you're overcome, but then there's another one and another one and another one. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share
When I talk to booksellers, they tell me how hard it is to hand-sell some of my books because I do keep popping around. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share
Housing being a top-order issue for cities is something that's not trivial. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share
I think that we value fairness in this country. We value equal opportunity. Without a stable home, those ideals really fall apart. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share
Exploitation. Now, there's a word that has been scrubbed out of the poverty debate. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share
I think there are ways that graduate students can fact-check their work. I think there are ways that we can do this that don't… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share
Fire itself is very beautiful, and there's an attachment to fire that firefighters have. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share
“Sherrena nodded reassuringly and said, almost to herself, “I guess I got to stop feeling sorry for these people because nobody is feeling sorry… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share
A community that sees so clearly its own disadvantage or its own hardships also has a harder time seeing its potential: its ability to… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share
“It was once said that the poor are 'constantly exposed to evidence of their own irrelevance.' Especially for poor African-American families - who live… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share
A universal voucher program would change the face of poverty in this country. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share
“Wildland firefighters do not enjoy the cultural prestige that structural firefighters do. They do not wax their fire engines and cruise down the local… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share
