Eviction is much more an inevitability than a result of irresponsibility. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Children didn't shield families from eviction: They exposed them to it. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Eviction affects old folks and young folks, sick people and able-bodied people, white communities and African-American communities. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
The face of the eviction epidemic is moms and kids, especially poor moms from predominantly Latino and African American neighborhoods. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“Worry is like a squatter: it sneaks in and tries to stay without paying rent! Serve it eviction papers"! HS/el” — Evinda Lepins Copy Share Image
Eviction often leads to a disruption in critical services like Medicaid and nutrition assistance when families need them most. — Michael Bennet Copy Share Image
It takes a good amount of time and money to establish a home. Eviction can erase all that. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Eviction reveals people's vulnerability and desperation as well as their ingenuity and guts. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“Eviction," Frieda said. "You can't pay, you can't stay." She said in Yiddish, "Es iz shver tzu makhen a leben." It's hard… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
Just as incarceration has come to define the lives of low-income black men, eviction is defining the lives of low-income black women. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Eviction comes with a record. Just like a criminal record can hurt you in the jobs market, eviction can hurt you in… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
When you meet people who are spending 70, 80 percent of their income on rent, eviction becomes much more of an inevitability… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
A lot of people didn't know just what eviction does to people, how it really sets their life on a different and… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“Along with instability, eviction also causes loss. Families lose not only their home, school, and neighborhood but also their possessions: furniture, clothes,… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Without the ability to plant roots and invest in your community or your school - because you're paying 60, 70, 80 percent… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“One's sovereignty over the land is expressed most powerfully in the act of banishment. Perhaps the first eviction recorded in human history… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
If you have someone who is paying 88 percent of her income on rent, and we have laws that allow a landlord… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
I saw people get fired after their eviction. But when I found that if you get evicted, your chances of losing your… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
I was one of six children raised by a single mom who cleaned houses, not always knowing if we would come home… — Eric Adams Copy Share Image
“Trailer park residents rarely raised a fuss about a neighbor’s eviction, whether that person was a known drug addict or not. Evictions… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
There were evictions that I saw that I know I'll never forget. In one case, the sheriff and the movers came up… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“Efforts to establish local cohesion and community investment are thwarted in neighborhoods with high turnover rates. In this way, eviction can unravel… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“Losing your home and possessions and often your job; being stamped with an eviction record and denied government housing assistance; relocating to… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Half of NYC's homeless populations are families.Homeless people have been ignored for too long. I'll just say this: If you are a… — Paul Bettany Copy Share Image
“If I am not the legal resident of the apartment you cannot evict me. You cannot evict Mrs. Tuttle, who is the… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
“In 2012, a police chief in Georgia was fired from his job, due to issues with some eviction notices he had served.… — Jeffrey Fisher Copy Share Image
“In Milwaukee, a city of fewer than 105,000 renter households, landlords evict roughly 16,000 adults and children each year. That's sixteen families… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Knock knock. who there? Your eviction notice you got 3 dayz to be out. — Damian Coleman Copy Share Image
“in their backyard, their impending eviction from the trailer park, and Cousin Serena’s” — Penny Reid Copy Share Image
“the presence of children in the household almost tripled a tenant’s odds of receiving an eviction judgment.” — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
I surely haven't only dealt with film people. As a lawyer, I also fought against evictions, or worked on leases - the… — Giovanna Cau Copy Share Image
If you just catalog the effects eviction has on people's live and neighborhoods, it's pretty troubling. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“The effect of living with children on receiving an eviction judgment was equivalent to falling four months behind in rent.12” — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
