You lose your home, you lose your community, you lose your school, you lose your stuff. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“It is only after we begin to see a street as our street, a public park as our park, a school as… — 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
I fought fires in the summer, and then I went back and did it again when I went to graduate school. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
This was what a lot of us, mainly young men, did in the summers in northern Arizona. This is how I put… — 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
The home is the center of life - a refuge from the grind of work, pressure of school, menace of the streets,… — 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
