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“A universal housing voucher program would carve a middle path between the landlord’s desire to make a living and the tenant’s desire, simply, to…

— Matthew Desmond

“A universal voucher program is but one potential policy recommendation. Let others come. Establishing the basic right to housing in America could be realized…

— Matthew Desmond

Studies show that recipients of Section 8 vouchers have tended to choose moderately poor neighborhoods that were already on the decline, not low-poverty neighborhoods.

— Hanna Rosin

Families, when they get a housing voucher, they move a lot less. They move into better neighborhoods. Their kids go to the same school…

— Matthew Desmond

Many hard working people in low paid jobs get housing benefit.

— Nicola Sturgeon

Housing is a social issue: how we live and where we live.

— Matthew Desmond

Place-based initiatives can provide a useful framework to judge our progress in raising people out of poverty. They allow us to see whether or…

— Henry Cisneros

“Most poor people in America were like Arleen: they did not live in public housing or apartments subsidized by vouchers. Three in four families…

— Matthew Desmond

We were able to provide housing to all who need it. We've had incredibly generous offers from alumni for housing.

— Noel Gallagher

“They have shown that problems endemic to poverty—residential instability, severe deprivation, concentrated neighborhood disadvantage, health disparities, even joblessness—stem from the lack of affordable housing…

— Matthew Desmond

Poor families are living above their means, in apartments they cannot afford. The thing is, those apartments are already at the bottom of the…

— Matthew Desmond

A universal voucher program would change the face of poverty in this country.

— Matthew Desmond