Avarice Quote by Adam Smith

“Tenants able to pay their rent in full each month could take advantage of legal protections designed to keep their housing safe and decent.…

— Matthew Desmond

The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated.

— Richard Cobden

“For many landlords, it was cheaper to deal with the expense of eviction than to maintain their properties; it was possible to skimp on…

— Matthew Desmond

Too often, the landlord-tenant relationship is unbalanced with all the power on the side of unscrupulous landlords.

— Nydia Velazquez

You have to understand the role the landlords are playing in shaping neighborhoods, how they potentially expand or reduce inequality, how their profits are…

— Matthew Desmond

Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economizing. The increase in the value of land, arising as it does from the…

— John Stuart Mill

The interest of the landlord is always opposed to the interests of every other class in the community.

— David Ricardo

Eviction is much more an inevitability than a result of irresponsibility.

— Matthew Desmond

Whenever rent controls or increased tenants' rights are raised, naysayers wail that doing so will cause landlords to flee the rental market. Firstly, that…

— Dawn Foster

If you just catalog the effects eviction has on people's live and neighborhoods, it's pretty troubling.

— Matthew Desmond

Having an awful landlord can be a good thing, it can bring you together as a household.

— Josh Widdicombe

“Malcontents who would dissent to paying rent are often bent on bad intent!!”

— Neil Leckman