Collapse Quote by Jessica Park

“The collapse of the family and the local community and their replacement by the state and the market.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“I bought a house in a depressed neighborhood. The prices weren’t low, but the people were all bummed out.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Families who spend more on housing spend less on their children.23 Poor families are living above their means, in apartments they cannot afford. The…

— Matthew Desmond

“The first effect of poverty is that it kills thought.”

— George Orwell

“We had a bubble in housing.”

— Alan Greenspan

“Families who spend more on housing spend less on their children.”

— Matthew Desmond

“Poverty is a force that pulls down the head of the people.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Poverty is a social status.”

— Christopher Ryan

“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

“Instability is not inherent to poverty. Poor families move so much because they are forced to. Along”

— Matthew Desmond

“Poverty scrapes these homes down until they all look the same, and they all have in common the absence of things that ought to…

— Hannah Kent

“There are only a few absolute truths in finances, like the fact that if you spend less than you make and have no debt,…

— Celso Cukierkorn