Eviction is much more an inevitability than a result of irresponsibility. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
I came to the realization of how essential a role housing plays in the lives of the poor. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
You can get out of maintaining property at code if the family is behind on rent. — Matthew Desmond 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 high cost of housing is crushing poor families and sending them to a state of desperation. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“Families who spend more on housing spend less on their children.” — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
A lot flows from the question: Is having decent, stable housing part of what it means to live in this country? And… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Hundreds of data-mining companies sell landlords tenant-screening reports that list past evictions and court filings. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
You have to understand the role the landlords are playing in shaping neighborhoods, how they potentially expand or reduce inequality, how their… — Matthew Desmond 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
“Today, the majority of poor renting families in America spend over half of their income on housing, and at least one in… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“For poor people, this required identifying with the oppressed, and counting yourself among them—which was something most trailer park residents were absolutely… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
I met a landlord who will pay you to move at the end of the week and let you use his van.… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Arguably, the families most at need of housing assistance are systematically denied it because they're stamped with an eviction record. Moms and… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“If tenants resisted excessive rent hikes or unwarranted evictions, it was because they invested in their homes and neighborhoods. They felt they… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Most poor families are living completely unassisted in a private rental market, devoting most of their income to housing. When you meet… — Matthew Desmond 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
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
“Families who spend more on housing spend less on their children.23 Poor families are living above their means, in apartments they cannot… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Evictions used to be rare in this country. They used to draw crowds. There are scenes in literature where you can come… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Eviction comes with a record, too, and just as a criminal record can bar you from receiving certain benefits or getting a… — 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
“Tenants in eviction court were generally poor, and almost all of them (92 percent) had missed rent payments. The majority spent at… — 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
If you look at the American Household Survey, the last time we did that in 2013, renters in over 2.8 million homes… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Tenants don't have any right to court-appointed attorneys in civil court, so they're either facing their landlord - or his or her… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
If eviction has these massive consequences that we all pay for, a very smart use of public funds would be to invest… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Between 2009 and 2011, more than one in eight Milwaukee renters were displaced involuntarily, whether by formal or informal eviction, landlord foreclosure,… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Eviction causes loss. You lose not only your home but also your possessions, which are thrown onto the curb or taken by… — 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
These days, there are sheriff squads whose full-time job is to carry out eviction and foreclosure orders. There are moving companies specializing… — 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
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 Image
Families who get evicted tend to live in worse housing than they did before, and they live in neighborhoods with higher poverty… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Young mothers who apply for housing assistance in our nation's capital literally could be grandmothers by the time their application is reviewed. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Most Americans think that the typical low - income family lives in public housing or gets housing assistance. The opposite is true. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Most cities don't have a just cause eviction law. Most allow no cause evictions, as well as evictions for nonpayment. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
The cost of evictions varies a lot, but it could be for landlords an expensive process as well. Among the costs for… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Evictions cause job loss. Because it's such a destabilizing, stressful event, they lose their footing in the labor market. It has big… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“In a typical month, 3 in 4 people in Milwaukee eviction court were black. Of those, 3 in 4 were women. The… — 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
