Eviction Quotes by Matthew Desmond

Eviction is fundamentally changing the face of poverty.

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An eviction is an incredibly time consuming and stressful event.

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Eviction is part of a business model at the bottom of the market.

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Kids increase people's risk of eviction.

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The face of America's eviction epidemic is a mom with kids.

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Eviction is much more an inevitability than a result of irresponsibility.

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Children didn't shield families from eviction: They exposed them to it.

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Eviction reveals people's vulnerability and desperation as well as their ingenuity and guts.

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It takes a good amount of time and money to establish a home. Eviction can erase all that.

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The face of the eviction epidemic is moms and kids, especially poor moms from predominantly Latino and African American neighborhoods.

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Eviction affects old folks and young folks, sick people and able-bodied people, white communities and African-American communities.

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Just as incarceration has come to define the lives of low-income black men, eviction is defining the lives of low-income black women.

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

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“The effect of living with children on receiving an eviction judgment was equivalent to falling four months behind in rent.12”

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If you just catalog the effects eviction has on people's live and neighborhoods, it's pretty troubling.

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If you have someone who is paying 88 percent of her income on rent, and we have laws that allow a landlord…

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I saw people get fired after their eviction. But when I found that if you get evicted, your chances of losing your…

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“One's sovereignty over the land is expressed most powerfully in the act of banishment. Perhaps the first eviction recorded in human history…

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Without the ability to plant roots and invest in your community or your school - because you're paying 60, 70, 80 percent…

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A lot of people didn't know just what eviction does to people, how it really sets their life on a different and…

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“Along with instability, eviction also causes loss. Families lose not only their home, school, and neighborhood but also their possessions: furniture, clothes,…

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Eviction comes with a record. Just like a criminal record can hurt you in the jobs market, eviction can hurt you in…

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When you meet people who are spending 70, 80 percent of their income on rent, eviction becomes much more of an inevitability…

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“Trailer park residents rarely raised a fuss about a neighbor’s eviction, whether that person was a known drug addict or not. Evictions…

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There were evictions that I saw that I know I'll never forget. In one case, the sheriff and the movers came up…

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“Efforts to establish local cohesion and community investment are thwarted in neighborhoods with high turnover rates. In this way, eviction can unravel…

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“Eviction's fallout is severe. Losing a home sends families to shelters, abandoned houses, and the street. It invites depression and illness, compels…

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“Tenants in eviction court were generally poor, and almost all of them (92 percent) had missed rent payments. The majority spent at…

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“Losing your home and possessions and often your job; being stamped with an eviction record and denied government housing assistance; relocating to…

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“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…

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“the presence of children in the household almost tripled a tenant’s odds of receiving an eviction judgment.”

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Most poor families are living completely unassisted in a private rental market, devoting most of their income to housing. When you meet…

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Arguably, the families most at need of housing assistance are systematically denied it because they're stamped with an eviction record. Moms and…

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I met a landlord who will pay you to move at the end of the week and let you use his van.…

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If eviction has these massive consequences that we all pay for, a very smart use of public funds would be to invest…

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Eviction comes with a record, too, and just as a criminal record can bar you from receiving certain benefits or getting a…

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Evictions used to be rare in this country. They used to draw crowds. There are scenes in literature where you can come…

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Between 2009 and 2011, more than one in eight Milwaukee renters were displaced involuntarily, whether by formal or informal eviction, landlord foreclosure,…

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Eviction causes loss. You lose not only your home but also your possessions, which are thrown onto the curb or taken by…

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There is a deep connection, when we're talking about certain market forces and a legal structure that inhibits low or moderate income…

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