When I talk to booksellers, they tell me how hard it is to hand-sell some of my books because I do keep… — 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
Libraries are not just places where people go read a book, but places where an immigrant goes to take English lessons and… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a book about poverty that wasn't only about the poor. I was looking for some sort of narrative… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
The texture and hardship of poverty and eviction is something that I think left the deepest impression on me, and I hope… — 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
I think I've read all of W.E.B. Du Bois, which is a lot. He started off with comprehensive field work in Philadelphia,… — 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
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 Image
You see one eviction, and you're overcome, but then there's another one and another one and another one. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
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 Image
Housing being a top-order issue for cities is something that's not trivial. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
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 Image
Exploitation. Now, there's a word that has been scrubbed out of the poverty debate. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
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 Image
Fire itself is very beautiful, and there's an attachment to fire that firefighters have. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“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 Image
Everywhere else, we are someone else, but at home, we remove our masks. — Matthew Desmond 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 ability to… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
