A community that sees so clearly its own disadvantage or its own hardships also has a harder time seeing its potential: its… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“It was once said that the poor are 'constantly exposed to evidence of their own irrelevance.' Especially for poor African-American families -… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
You lose your home, you lose your community, you lose your school, you lose your stuff. — Matthew Desmond 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 Copy Share Image
If we care about family stability, if we care about community stability, then we need fewer evictions. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Trying to learn from communities and engage with policy makers and community organizers all across the country is really important to me. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“Working on behalf of the common good is the engine of democracy, vital to our communities, cities, states—and, ultimately, the nation. It… — 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
“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
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
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 Copy Share Image
Home is the wellspring of personhood, where our identity takes root; where civic life begins. America is supposed to be a place… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“Poor neighborhoods provided their residents with quite a lot. In the trailer park, residents met people who knew how to pirate cable,… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
In February 1932, the 'Times' published an account of community resistance to the eviction of three families in the Bronx, observing, 'Probably… — 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
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
