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
Housing being a top-order issue for cities is something that's not trivial. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Young mothers who apply for housing assistance in our nation's capital literally could be grandmothers by the time their application is reviewed. — 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
Families who get evicted tend to live in worse housing than they did before, and they live in neighborhoods with higher poverty… — 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
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
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
I came to the realization of how essential a role housing plays in the lives of the poor. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Most Americans think that the typical low - income family lives in public housing or gets housing assistance. The opposite is true. — 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
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
We have failed to fully appreciate how deeply housing is implicated in the creation of poverty. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Housing is absolutely essential to human flourishing. Without stable shelter, it all falls apart. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Substandard housing was a blow to your psychological health, not only because things like dampness, mold, and overcrowding could bring about depression… — 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
