Healthcare providers have helped me see that decent, safe…

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

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

You see one eviction, and you're overcome, but then there's another one and another one and another one.

— Matthew Desmond

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

Housing being a top-order issue for cities is something that's not trivial.

— Matthew Desmond

I think that we value fairness in this country. We value equal opportunity. Without a stable home, those ideals really fall apart.

— Matthew Desmond

Exploitation. Now, there's a word that has been scrubbed out of the poverty debate.

— Matthew Desmond

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

Fire itself is very beautiful, and there's an attachment to fire that firefighters have.

— Matthew Desmond

“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

Everywhere else, we are someone else, but at home, we remove our masks.

— Matthew Desmond

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

“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

A universal voucher program would change the face of poverty in this country.

— Matthew Desmond

“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