Housing being a top-order issue for cities is something that's not trivial. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
African American women, and moms in particular, are evicted at disproportionately high rates. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
I don't think that you can address poverty unless you address the lack of affordable housing in the cities. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
It takes a good amount of time and money to establish a home. Eviction can erase all that. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Eviction is much more an inevitability than a result of irresponsibility. — 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 affects old folks and young folks, sick people and able-bodied people, white communities and African-American communities. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Eviction riots erupted during the Depression, though the number of poor families who faced eviction each year was a fraction of what… — Matthew Desmond 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
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
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
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
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
“If tenants resisted excessive rent hikes or unwarranted evictions, it was because they invested in their homes and neighborhoods. They felt they… — 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
“In the vast majority of cases (83 percent), landlords who received a nuisance citation for domestic violence responded by either evicting the… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Since evictions go through court, it has a record that comes with it, and many landlords that I spend time with use… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
I don't want to sound Pollyannish about this. I understand that poverty is never just poverty. It's often this collection of maladies,… — 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
Healthcare providers have helped me see that decent, safe housing can promote physical and mental wellness; and engaged citizens have shown me… — 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
“When several patients committed suicide in the days leading up to their eviction, a group of psychiatrists published a letter in Psychiatric… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“A universal voucher program is but one potential policy recommendation. Let others come. Establishing the basic right to housing in America could… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“A single eviction could destabilize multiple city blocks, not only the block from which a family was evicted but also the block… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“Between 2009 and 2011, nearly half of all renters in Milwaukee experienced a serious and lasting housing problem.14 More than 1 in… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“A universal housing voucher program would carve a middle path between the landlord’s desire to make a living and the tenant’s desire,… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
If you just catalog the effects eviction has on people's live and neighborhoods, it's pretty troubling. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
I came to the realization of how essential a role housing plays in the lives of the poor. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“Families who spend more on housing spend less on their children.” — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
The high cost of housing is crushing poor families and sending them to a state of desperation. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Tenants don't have any right to court-appointed attorneys in civil court, so they're either facing their landlord - or his or her… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
You have to understand the role the landlords are playing in shaping neighborhoods, how they potentially expand or reduce inequality, how their… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“Today, the majority of poor renting families in America spend over half of their income on housing, and at least one in… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Hundreds of data-mining companies sell landlords tenant-screening reports that list past evictions and court filings. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Do we believe housing is a right and that affordable housing is part of what it should mean to be an American?… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
A lot flows from the question: Is having decent, stable housing part of what it means to live in this country? And… — 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
