Eviction often leads to a disruption in critical services like Medicaid and nutrition assistance when families need them most. — Michael Bennet Copy Share Image
“Worry is like a squatter: it sneaks in and tries to stay without paying rent! Serve it eviction papers"! HS/el” — Evinda Lepins Copy Share Image
The face of the eviction epidemic is moms and kids, especially poor moms from predominantly Latino and African American neighborhoods. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“You don't go through things with people and not love them for it. It's like those guys in the army who fight… — Lara Zielin Copy Share Image
There is a deep connection, when we're talking about certain market forces and a legal structure that inhibits low or moderate income… — 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 Copy Share Image
Between 2009 and 2011, more than one in eight Milwaukee renters were displaced involuntarily, whether by formal or informal eviction, landlord foreclosure,… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Eviction comes with a record, too, and just as a criminal record can bar you from receiving certain benefits or getting a… — 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
Eviction causes loss. You lose not only your home but also your possessions, which are thrown onto the curb or taken by… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Arguably, the families most at need of housing assistance are systematically denied it because they're stamped with an eviction record. Moms 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
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 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
I was one of six children raised by a single mom who cleaned houses, not always knowing if we would come home… — Eric Adams Copy Share Image
I met a landlord who will pay you to move at the end of the week and let you use his van.… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Joe Biden, acting as a pseudo-dictator, has ignored the Supreme Court and issued his own eviction moratorium. He is shredding the Constitution… — Marjorie Taylor Greene Copy Share Image
If eviction has these massive consequences that we all pay for, a very smart use of public funds would be to invest… — Matthew Desmond 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 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
A lot of people didn't know just what eviction does to people, how it really sets their life on a different and… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
When you meet people who are spending 70, 80 percent of their income on rent, eviction becomes much more of an inevitability… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Eviction comes with a record. Just like a criminal record can hurt you in the jobs market, eviction can hurt you in… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
I saw people get fired after their eviction. But when I found that if you get evicted, your chances of losing your… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
If you have someone who is paying 88 percent of her income on rent, and we have laws that allow a landlord… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“One's sovereignty over the land is expressed most powerfully in the act of banishment. Perhaps the first eviction recorded in human history… — 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
