It takes a good amount of time and money to establish a home. Eviction can erase all that. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
A lot of the stories about urban America tend to be written on the margins. We focus a lot on these big… — 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
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
A community that sees so clearly its own disadvantage or its own hardships also has a harder time seeing its potential: its… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
If I wrote in Michael Harrington's time, roughly 50 years later when he published 'The Other America', I'd still be writing about… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
When you're following people after their eviction, they often start out kind of optimistic, in a way - it's a really tough… — 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
“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
“For the first time in the history of America, New Deal policies made homeownership a real possibility for white families, but black… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
If I wrote in Jacob Riis' time, I'd be writing about teeming slums in our cities and kids dying of tuberculosis or… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
In February 1932, the 'Times' published an account of community resistance to the eviction of three families in the Bronx, observing, 'Probably… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Why young men from the country become firefighters is hard to explain to people who are not from the country. For most… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
If you look at the American Household Survey, the last time we did that in 2013, renters in over 2.8 million homes… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“These days, there are sheriff squads whose full-time job is to carry out eviction and foreclosure orders. There are moving companies specializing… — 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
