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“compared to 2000, residents of extreme-poverty neighborhoods in 2005–09 were more likely to be white, native-born, high school or college graduates, homeowners, and not…

— J.D. Vance

“As a 2011 Brookings Institution study found, “compared to 2000, residents of extreme-poverty neighborhoods in 2005–09 were more likely to be white, native-born, high…

— J.D. Vance

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

“It is commonly thought that high-poverty neighborhoods are socially fragmented and suffer a weak sense of community, but that is mistaken (see, for example,…

— Karl Alexander

“number of working-class whites in high-poverty neighborhoods is growing. In 1970, 25 percent of white children lived in a neighborhood with poverty”

— J.D. Vance

Housing vouchers are a vital lifeline for many people I know in New Orleans and around the country, including struggling artists.

— Big Freedia

“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

The way that you empower the poor to be able to live in those neighborhoods is not to just move them and give them…

— Katie Pavlich

“As a 2011 Brookings Institution study found, “compared to 2000, residents of extreme-poverty neighborhoods in 2005–09 were more likely to be white, native-born, high…

— J.D. Vance

“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

“The number of working-class whites in high-poverty neighborhoods is growing. In 1970, 25 percent of white children lived in a neighborhood with poverty rates…

— J.D. Vance

I don't think that you can address poverty unless you address the lack of affordable housing in the cities.

— Matthew Desmond