If we care about family stability, if we care about community stability, then we need fewer evictions. — Matthew Desmond Care Copy Share Image
Public-sector union organisers have told me about how firefighters, police officers, and nurses can no longer afford to live in the cities… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
If we take a hard look at what poverty is, its nature, it's not pretty - it's full of trauma. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
I love Milwaukee, the rust belt. It's a very special part of America that's full of promise but also full of pain,… — Matthew Desmond America Copy Share Image
Most cities don't have a just cause eviction law. Most allow no cause evictions, as well as evictions for nonpayment. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
There are moving companies specializing in evictions, their crews working all day, every weekday. — Matthew Desmond Companies Copy Share Image
The cost of evictions varies a lot, but it could be for landlords an expensive process as well. Among the costs for… — Matthew Desmond Costs Copy Share Image
No moral code or ethical principle, no piece of scripture or holy teaching, can be summoned to defend what we have allowed… — Matthew Desmond Country 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
Arguably, the families most at need of housing assistance are systematically denied it because they're stamped with an eviction record. Moms and… — Matthew Desmond Consequences Copy Share Image
I met a landlord who will pay you to move at the end of the week and let you use his van.… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
The texture and hardship of poverty and eviction is something that I think left the deepest impression on me, and I hope… — Matthew Desmond Books Copy Share Image
“For poor people, this required identifying with the oppressed, and counting yourself among them—which was something most trailer park residents were absolutely… — Matthew Desmond Housing Copy Share Image
I teach at Harvard, and focusing on understanding this problem on a national level is a big priority of mine right now… — Matthew Desmond Insecurity Copy Share Image
“Not everyone living in a distressed neighborhood is associated with gang members, parole officers, employers, social workers, or pastors. But nearly all… — Matthew Desmond Landlord Copy Share Image
I want my work to influence public conversation, to turn heads, and to bear witness to this problem that's raging in our… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“In Milwaukee, a city of fewer than 105,000 renter households, landlords evict roughly 16,000 adults and children each year. That's sixteen families… — Matthew Desmond Children Copy Share Image
“Between 2009 and 2011, nearly half of all renters in Milwaukee experienced a serious and lasting housing problem.14 More than 1 in… — Matthew Desmond African american Copy Share Image
“People like Larraine lived with so many compounded limitations that it was difficult to imagine the amount of good behavior or self-control… — Matthew Desmond Good behavior Copy Share Image
“It was once said that the poor are 'constantly exposed to evidence of their own irrelevance.' Especially for poor African-American families -… — Matthew Desmond Community Copy Share Image
“As President Clinton was fine-tuning his plan to “end welfare as we know it,” a conservative reformer by the name of Jason… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“Families have watched their incomes stagnate, or even fall, while their housing costs have soared. Today, the majority of poor renting families… — Matthew Desmond Family Copy Share Image
“Losing your home and possessions and often your job; being stamped with an eviction record and denied government housing assistance; relocating to… — Matthew Desmond Eviction Copy Share Image
What we're seeing is that even in high poverty neighborhoods, the average cost of renting is quickly approaching the total income of… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“Once America's eleventh-largest city, Milwaukee's population had fallen below 600,000, down from over 740,000 in 1960. It showed.” — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
I felt that writing about peoples' lives was a heck of a responsibility, and I wanted to know them in a deep… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“It was once said that the poor are “constantly exposed to evidence of their own irrelevance.” — Matthew Desmond Irrelevance Copy Share Image
“There are two ways to dehumanize; the first is to strip people of all virtue; the second is to cleanse them of… — Matthew Desmond Dehumanize Copy Share Image
I think I've read all of W.E.B. Du Bois, which is a lot. He started off with comprehensive field work in Philadelphia,… — Matthew Desmond Books Copy Share Image
Between 2009 and 2011, more than one in eight Milwaukee renters were displaced involuntarily, whether by formal or informal eviction, landlord foreclosure,… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Eviction comes with a record, too, and just as a criminal record can bar you from receiving certain benefits or getting a… — Matthew Desmond Bar Copy Share Image
Evictions used to be rare in this country. They used to draw crowds. There are scenes in literature where you can come… — Matthew Desmond Books Copy Share Image
“Efforts to establish local cohesion and community investment are thwarted in neighborhoods with high turnover rates. In this way, eviction can unravel… — Matthew Desmond Civic engagement Copy Share Image
You lose your home, you are much more likely to lose your job the year following. The reason for that comes back… — Matthew Desmond Failure Copy Share Image
Families who get evicted tend to live in worse housing than they did before, and they live in neighborhoods with higher poverty… — Matthew Desmond Families Copy Share Image
Even growing up the way I did, I was shocked by the level of poverty I saw as a college student. I… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“Another wrote: “First, we are evicting Sheila M, the caller for help from police. She has been beaten by her ‘man’ who… — Matthew Desmond Self defense 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 Day 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 Battle Copy Share Image
If incarceration had come to define the lives of men from impoverished black neighborhoods, eviction was shaping the lives of women. Poor… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
