If eviction has these massive consequences that we all pay for, a very smart use of public funds would be to invest… — Matthew Desmond Consequences Copy Share Image
“Instability is not inherent to poverty. Poor families move so much because they are forced to. Along” — Matthew Desmond Family 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 Accident Copy Share Image
I came to the realization of how essential a role housing plays in the lives of the poor. — Matthew Desmond Housing Copy Share Image
Fire itself is very beautiful, and there's an attachment to fire that firefighters have. — Matthew Desmond Attachment 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
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
I think that we value fairness in this country. We value equal opportunity. Without a stable home, those ideals really fall apart. — Matthew Desmond Country Copy Share Image
“Trailer park residents rarely raised a fuss about a neighbor’s eviction, whether that person was a known drug addict or not. Evictions… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Many times when we are talking about displacement, we talk about it within the frame of gentrification, which focuses on transitioning neighborhoods.… — Matthew Desmond City Copy Share Image
“Today, the majority of poor renting families in America spend over half of their income on housing, and at least one in… — Matthew Desmond Family 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 America Copy Share Image
“Families who spend more on housing spend less on their children.23 Poor families are living above their means, in apartments they cannot… — Matthew Desmond Family Copy Share Image
You have to understand the role the landlords are playing in shaping neighborhoods, how they potentially expand or reduce inequality, how their… — Matthew Desmond Housing Copy Share Image
I started a student organization that was basically designed to connect students with homeless folks. We visited them and sometimes brought food,… — Matthew Desmond Food Copy Share Image
Tenants don't have any right to court-appointed attorneys in civil court, so they're either facing their landlord - or his or her… — Matthew Desmond Alone Copy Share Image
“When there wasn’t a speaker, he often organized round robins. One such evening, a woman from Lead and Asbestos Information Center, Inc.,… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“Hispanic and African American neighborhoods had been targeted by the subprime lending industry: renters were lured into buying bad mortgages, and homeowners… — Matthew Desmond African american Copy Share Image
“A problem as big as the affordable-housing crisis calls for a big solution. It should be at the top of America's domestic-policy… — Matthew Desmond Affordable housing Copy Share Image
“Tenants in eviction court were generally poor, and almost all of them (92 percent) had missed rent payments. The majority spent at… — Matthew Desmond Eviction Copy Share Image
“When people began to view their neighborhood as brimming with deprivation and vice, full of “all sorts of shipwrecked humanity,” they lost… — Matthew Desmond Community Copy Share Image
“Eviction's fallout is severe. Losing a home sends families to shelters, abandoned houses, and the street. It invites depression and illness, compels… — Matthew Desmond Eviction Copy Share Image
“In Milwaukee, renters with housing vouchers were charged an average of $55 more each month, compared to unassisted renters who lived in… — Matthew Desmond Housing Copy Share Image
“Residential stability begets a kind of psychological stability, which allows people to invest in their home and social relationships. It begets school… — Matthew Desmond Housing 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… — 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 America 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
“Affordable housing is a human-capital investment, just like job programs or education, one that would strengthen and steady the American workforce.” — Matthew Desmond Affordable housing Copy Share Image
“The effect of living with children on receiving an eviction judgment was equivalent to falling four months behind in rent.12” — Matthew Desmond Children Copy Share Image
Eviction causes loss. You lose not only your home but also your possessions, which are thrown onto the curb or taken by… — Matthew Desmond Eviction Copy Share Image
Libraries are not just places where people go read a book, but places where an immigrant goes to take English lessons and… — Matthew Desmond Books Copy Share Image
If you just catalog the effects eviction has on people's live and neighborhoods, it's pretty troubling. — Matthew Desmond Catalog Copy Share Image
Differences in homeownership rates remain the prime driver of the nation's racial wealth gap. — Matthew Desmond Differences Copy Share Image
If poverty persists in America, it is not for lack of resources. We lack something else. — Matthew Desmond America Copy Share Image
“the presence of children in the household almost tripled a tenant’s odds of receiving an eviction judgment.” — Matthew Desmond Children Copy Share Image
When you fight fires for a few seasons, you know what to expect. Your heart doesn't race as much as it did. — Matthew Desmond Fight 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
The high cost of housing is crushing poor families and sending them to a state of desperation. — Matthew Desmond Desperation Copy Share Image
American greatness can be further unlocked if opportunity is expanded to all people within its borders. — Matthew Desmond America Copy Share Image
Most Americans think that the typical low - income family lives in public housing or gets housing assistance. The opposite is true. — Matthew Desmond Family Copy Share Image
