“In a typical month, 3 in 4 people in Milwaukee eviction court were black. Of those, 3 in 4 were women. The… — Matthew Desmond Black women Copy Share Image
Payday loans are but one of many financial techniques - from overdraft fees to student loans subsidizing for-profit colleges - specifically designed… — Matthew Desmond Loans 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… — Matthew Desmond Feeling sorry Copy Share Image
Moms that get evicted are depressed and have higher rates of depressive symptoms two years later. That has to affect their interactions… — Matthew Desmond Evicted Copy Share Image
Evictions cause job loss. Because it's such a destabilizing, stressful event, they lose their footing in the labor market. It has big… — Matthew Desmond Big impact 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
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 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
“When the American labor movement rose up in the 1830s to demand higher wages, landed capital did not lock arms with industrial… — Matthew Desmond Capitalism Copy Share Image
This was what a lot of us, mainly young men, did in the summers in northern Arizona. This is how I put… — Matthew Desmond Fires Copy Share Image
National data on evictions aren't collected, although national data on foreclosures are. And so if anyone wants to, kind of, get to… — Matthew Desmond Data 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,… — 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 Court Copy Share Image
If we take a hard look at what poverty is, its nature, it's not pretty - it's full of trauma. And we're… — Matthew Desmond Acts of violence Copy Share Image
When we think of entitlement programs, Social Security and Medicare immediately come to mind. But by any fair standard, the holy trinity… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
There is a deep connection, when we're talking about certain market forces and a legal structure that inhibits low or moderate income… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
We can start with housing, the sturdiest of footholds for economic mobility. A national affordable housing program would be an anti-poverty effort,… — Matthew Desmond Affordable housing 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 Change Copy Share Image
I have always been really troubled by the amount of poverty in America. Americans are matched in their rich democracy with the… — Matthew Desmond America Copy Share Image
Home is where children find safety and security, where we find our identities, where citizenship starts. It usually starts with believing you're… — Matthew Desmond Children Copy Share Image
When you ask people why they were evicted, the big reason is nonpayment of rent. They can't afford to keep a roof… — Matthew Desmond Evicted Copy Share Image
Some white Milwakeeans still referred to the North side as 'the cire', as they did in the 1960s, and if they ventured… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
