“Instability is not inherent to poverty. Poor families move so much because they are forced to. Along” — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Since the publication of 'Evicted', I have had countless conversations with concerned families across America. Teachers in under-served communities have told me… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
The standard of 'affordable' housing is that which costs roughly 30 percent or less of a family's income. Because of rising housing… — 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
“90 percent of landlords are represented by attorneys, and 90 percent of tenants are not.35 Low-income families on the edge of eviction… — 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
You can get out of maintaining property at code if the family is behind on rent. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“Most federal housing subsidies benefit families with six-figure incomes.59 If we are going to spend the bulk of our public dollars on… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“A problem as big as the affordable-housing crisis calls for a big solution. It should be at the top of America's domestic-policy… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“the presence of children in the household almost tripled a tenant’s odds of receiving an eviction judgment.” — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“For example, a program that ran from 2005 to 2008 in the South Bronx provided more than 1,300 families with legal assistance… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“Legal aid to the poor has been steadily diminishing since the Reagan years and was decimated during the Great Recession. The result… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Families, when they get a housing voucher, they move a lot less. They move into better neighborhoods. Their kids go to the… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“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… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“Families who spend more on housing spend less on their children.23 Poor families are living above their means, in apartments they cannot… — 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
