“Once America's eleventh-largest city, Milwaukee's population had fallen below 600,000, down from over 740,000 in 1960. It showed.” — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
What we're seeing is that even in high poverty neighborhoods, the average cost of renting is quickly approaching the total income of… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
No moral code or ethical principle, no piece of scripture or holy teaching, can be summoned to defend what we have allowed… — Matthew Desmond Country 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 Costs Copy Share Image
There are moving companies specializing in evictions, their crews working all day, every weekday. — Matthew Desmond Companies Copy Share Image
I love Milwaukee, the rust belt. It's a very special part of America that's full of promise but also full of pain,… — Matthew Desmond America 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
If we take a hard look at what poverty is, its nature, it's not pretty - it's full of trauma. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
A lot of the stories about urban America tend to be written on the margins. We focus a lot on these big… — Matthew Desmond America 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 Family 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 Family Copy Share Image
Many times when we are talking about displacement, we talk about it within the frame of gentrification, which focuses on transitioning neighborhoods.… — Matthew Desmond City 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 Eviction 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 Children 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 Affordable housing Copy Share Image
“Between 2009 and 2011, nearly half of all renters in Milwaukee experienced a serious and lasting housing problem.14 More than 1 in… — Matthew Desmond African american 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 Children Copy Share Image
“Residential stability begets a kind of psychological stability, which allows people to invest in their home and social relationships. It begets school… — Matthew Desmond Housing Copy Share Image
“In Milwaukee, renters with housing vouchers were charged an average of $55 more each month, compared to unassisted renters who lived in… — Matthew Desmond Housing Copy Share Image
“Eviction's fallout is severe. Losing a home sends families to shelters, abandoned houses, and the street. It invites depression and illness, compels… — Matthew Desmond Eviction Copy Share Image
“When people began to view their neighborhood as brimming with deprivation and vice, full of “all sorts of shipwrecked humanity,” they lost… — Matthew Desmond Community 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 Eviction Copy Share Image
Public-sector union organisers have told me about how firefighters, police officers, and nurses can no longer afford to live in the cities… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
If we care about family stability, if we care about community stability, then we need fewer evictions. — Matthew Desmond Care 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 Family Copy Share Image
American greatness can be further unlocked if opportunity is expanded to all people within its borders. — Matthew Desmond America Copy Share Image
The high cost of housing is crushing poor families and sending them to a state of desperation. — Matthew Desmond Desperation Copy Share Image
In college, when I was kind of confronted with facts and figures about inequality in America, a big impulse I had was… — Matthew Desmond America Copy Share Image
National data on evictions aren't collected, although national data on foreclosures are. And so if anyone wants to, kind of, get to… — Matthew Desmond Data Copy Share Image
If we continue to tolerate this level of poverty in our cities, and go along with eviction as commonplace in poor neighborhoods,… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
It's true that eviction affects the young and the old, the sick and the able-bodied. It affects white folks and black folks… — Matthew Desmond Court Copy Share Image
If we take a hard look at what poverty is, its nature, it's not pretty - it's full of trauma. And we're… — Matthew Desmond Acts of violence Copy Share Image
“When the American labor movement rose up in the 1830s to demand higher wages, landed capital did not lock arms with industrial… — Matthew Desmond Capitalism Copy Share Image
This was what a lot of us, mainly young men, did in the summers in northern Arizona. This is how I put… — Matthew Desmond Fires Copy Share Image
When we think of entitlement programs, Social Security and Medicare immediately come to mind. But by any fair standard, the holy trinity… — 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 Affordable housing Copy Share Image
A community that sees so clearly its own disadvantage or its own hardships also has a harder time seeing its potential: its… — Matthew Desmond Change Copy Share Image
I have always been really troubled by the amount of poverty in America. Americans are matched in their rich democracy with the… — Matthew Desmond America Copy Share Image
Home is where children find safety and security, where we find our identities, where citizenship starts. It usually starts with believing you're… — Matthew Desmond Children Copy Share Image
