About Quote by Joseph Stiglitz

What we're seeing is that even in high poverty neighborhoods, the average cost of renting is quickly approaching the total income of welfare recipients…

— Matthew Desmond

“The most obvious manifestation of the affordable housing crisis is in rising rents. Between 1900 and 2013, rents rose faster than inflation in virtually…

— Kathryn Edin

Rent and the cost of essentials like food and child care are rising so fast that wages are not keeping up.

— Kate Brown

“Since people can only be paid for their goods and services or extract rent from society, less income is available to service the payment…

— Martin Adams

“annual increases in your rent is 4 percent per year.”

— Eric Tyson

Parents are telling other parents that you can save a lot of money renting. Forever they've been looking for a solution to higher textbook…

— Osman Rashid

No doubt exists that rent seeking in general leads to serious inefficiencies in this direct sense, but its indirect damage is even worse. Drawing…

— Gordon Tullock

“In short, rent control reduces the rate of housing turnover.”

— Thomas Sowell

In general, more affordable housing correlates with lower income inequality.

— Annie Lowrey

You have to understand the role the landlords are playing in shaping neighborhoods, how they potentially expand or reduce inequality, how their profits are…

— Matthew Desmond

The increase in inequality in income is a longtime trend, but the pressure on middle- and low-income workers is going up rapidly. Especially if…

— Alice Rivlin

“the rent is a little higher here but so far I've been able to pay it and that's a miracle too like still maybe…

— Charles Bukowski