Change Quote by Matthew Desmond

“A community that sees so clearly its own disadvantage or its own hardships also has a harder time seeing its potential: its ability to work together to change the community and change their lives.” quote by Matthew Desmond — Download Open image

“A community that sees so clearly its own disadvantage or its own hardships also has a harder time seeing its potential: its ability to work together to change the community and change their lives.”

Matthew Desmond

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You see one eviction, and you're overcome, but then there's another one and another one and another one.

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Housing being a top-order issue for cities is something that's not trivial.

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Exploitation. Now, there's a word that has been scrubbed out of the poverty debate.

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Everywhere else, we are someone else, but at home, we remove our masks.

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“It was once said that the poor are 'constantly exposed to evidence of their own irrelevance.' Especially for poor African-American families - who live in neighborhoods with rates of violence and concentrated poverty so extreme that even the worst white neighborhoods bear little resemblance - living in degrading housing in dangerous neighborhoods sent a clear message about where the wider…

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