All homeowners in America may deduct mortgage interest on their first and second homes. — Matthew Desmond America Copy Share Image
“Families who spend more on housing spend less on their children.” — Matthew Desmond Children 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
Ours was not always a nation of homeowners; the New Deal fashioned it so, particularly through the G.I. Bill of Rights. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
When you meet people who are spending 70, 80 percent of their income on rent, eviction becomes much more of an inevitability… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
A lot of us who grew up in the country, hunting and fishing, being very familiar with the woods and dirt roads,… — Matthew Desmond Country Copy Share Image
Just strictly from a business standpoint, kids are a liability to landlords, and they actually provoke evictions. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
When I left Milwaukee, and I had all these stories. I felt so responsible for people. It's a heck of a thing… — 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 Affordable housing Copy Share Image
This country has so much wealth and so much poverty, and that seemed wrong to me. 'Evicted' was my Ph.D. dissertation. — Matthew Desmond Country 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
“If tenants resisted excessive rent hikes or unwarranted evictions, it was because they invested in their homes and neighborhoods. They felt they… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“They have shown that problems endemic to poverty—residential instability, severe deprivation, concentrated neighborhood disadvantage, health disparities, even joblessness—stem from the lack of… — Matthew Desmond Affordable housing 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 Eviction Copy Share Image
In college, when I was kind of confronted with facts and figures about inequality in America, a big impulse I had was… — Matthew Desmond America Copy Share Image
The standard of 'affordable' housing is that which costs roughly 30 percent or less of a family's income. Because of rising housing… — Matthew Desmond Affordable housing Copy Share Image
There were evictions that I saw that I know I'll never forget. In one case, the sheriff and the movers came up… — Matthew Desmond Children Copy Share Image
Most poor families are living completely unassisted in a private rental market, devoting most of their income to housing. When you meet… — Matthew Desmond Eviction Copy Share Image
“As the move went on, the woman slowed down. At first, she had borne down on the emergency with focus and energy,… — Matthew Desmond Drinking water Copy Share Image
“When several patients committed suicide in the days leading up to their eviction, a group of psychiatrists published a letter in Psychiatric… — Matthew Desmond Housing Copy Share Image
“90 percent of landlords are represented by attorneys, and 90 percent of tenants are not.35 Low-income families on the edge of eviction… — Matthew Desmond Family Copy Share Image
“Tenants able to pay their rent in full each month could take advantage of legal protections designed to keep their housing safe… — Matthew Desmond Housing Copy Share Image
“Some landlords neglected to screen tenants for the same reason payday lenders offered unsecured, high-interest loans to families with unpaid debt or… — Matthew Desmond Air conditioner Copy Share Image
“The year the police called Sherrena, Wisconsin saw more than one victim per week murdered by a current or former romantic partner… — Matthew Desmond Police 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 Federal government Copy Share Image
“Legal aid to the poor has been steadily diminishing since the Reagan years and was decimated during the Great Recession. The result… — Matthew Desmond Fair trial Copy Share Image
A lot flows from the question: Is having decent, stable housing part of what it means to live in this country? And… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Almost a decade removed from the foreclosure crisis that began in 2008, the nation is facing one of the worst affordable-housing shortages… — Matthew Desmond Crisis Copy Share Image
We have failed to fully appreciate how deeply housing is implicated in the creation of poverty. — 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
When I was confronted with just the bare facts of poverty and inequality in America, it always disturbed and confused me. — Matthew Desmond America Copy Share Image
Just as incarceration has come to define the lives of low-income black men, eviction is defining the lives of low-income black women. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Hundreds of data-mining companies sell landlords tenant-screening reports that list past evictions and court filings. — Matthew Desmond Court 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
There is a reason so many Americans choose to develop their net worth through homeownership: It is a proven wealth builder and… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“When people have a place to live, they become better parents, workers, and citizens. If” — Matthew Desmond Live better Copy Share Image
I see myself writing in the tradition of urban ethnography and in the tradition of the sociology of poverty. — Matthew Desmond Culture Copy Share Image
“People who were repulsed by their home, who felt they had no control over it, and yet had to give most of… — 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… — Matthew Desmond Graduate student Copy Share Image
“Scott then walked slowly from room to room, noticing what had been snatched and what was unwanted even by the desperate. No… — Matthew Desmond Writer Copy Share Image
