Poverty was a relationship, I thought, involving poor and rich people alike. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“Our current state of affairs reduces to poverty people born for better things.” — 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
“Instability is not inherent to poverty. Poor families move so much because they are forced to. Along” — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
I have always been really troubled by the amount of poverty in America. Americans are matched in their rich democracy with the… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Poverty is not just a sad accident, but it's also a result of the fact that some people make a lot of… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“Poverty is two-faced—a matter of income and expenses, input and output—and in a world of exploitation, it will not be effectively ameliorated… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Poverty is a relationship that involves a lot of folks, rich and poor alike. I was looking for something that brought a… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
If we are going to spend the bulk of our public dollars on the affluent - at least when it comes to… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
The poor don't want some small life. They don't want to game the system. They want to contribute, and they want to… — 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
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
You see one eviction, and you're overcome, but then there's another one and another one and another one. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share
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
Housing being a top-order issue for cities is something that's not trivial. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share
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
Exploitation. Now, there's a word that has been scrubbed out of the poverty debate. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share
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
Fire itself is very beautiful, and there's an attachment to fire that firefighters have. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share
“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
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
“It was once said that the poor are 'constantly exposed to evidence of their own irrelevance.' Especially for poor African-American families - who live… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share
A universal voucher program would change the face of poverty in this country. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share
“Wildland firefighters do not enjoy the cultural prestige that structural firefighters do. They do not wax their fire engines and cruise down the local… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share
