Inevitability Quote by Matthew Desmond Download Open image “Eviction is much more an inevitability than a result of irresponsibility.” — Matthew Desmond ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Inevitability More Much Result Than
When you meet people who are spending 70, 80 percent of their income on rent, eviction becomes much more of an inevitability than the… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
If you have someone who is paying 88 percent of her income on rent, and we have laws that allow a landlord to evict… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“Evictions should be the absolute last resort for landlords and not the first-choice, nuclear option. Evicting people is mostly an unnecessary exercise in power-tripping… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
If you just catalog the effects eviction has on people's live and neighborhoods, it's pretty troubling. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Most cities don't have a just cause eviction law. Most allow no cause evictions, as well as evictions for nonpayment. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
You see one eviction, and you're overcome, but then there's another one and another one and another one. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Just strictly from a business standpoint, kids are a liability to landlords, and they actually provoke evictions. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
I used to brag that I can hold up any eviction - even if the landlord had legal rights, I could hold it up… — Ed Lee Copy Share Image
Without the ability to plant roots and invest in your community or your school - because you're paying 60, 70, 80 percent of your… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“The effect of living with children on receiving an eviction judgment was equivalent to falling four months behind in rent.12” — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
I don't think we can fix poverty without fixing housing, and I don't think we can address housing without understanding landlords. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
If we continue to tolerate this level of poverty in our cities, and go along with eviction as commonplace in poor neighborhoods, it's not… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
You see one eviction, and you're overcome, but then there's another one and another one and another one. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
When I talk to booksellers, they tell me how hard it is to hand-sell some of my books because I do keep popping around. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Housing being a top-order issue for cities is something that's not trivial. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
I think that we value fairness in this country. We value equal opportunity. Without a stable home, those ideals really fall apart. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Exploitation. Now, there's a word that has been scrubbed out of the poverty debate. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
I think there are ways that graduate students can fact-check their work. I think there are ways that we can do this that don't… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Fire itself is very beautiful, and there's an attachment to fire that firefighters have. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“Sherrena nodded reassuringly and said, almost to herself, “I guess I got to stop feeling sorry for these people because nobody is feeling sorry… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Everywhere else, we are someone else, but at home, we remove our masks. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share 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… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
He decided then that he would love her forever no matter what came to pass. It was not so much a matter of deciding… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
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There is the extreme of hopelessness and the inevitability of doom, a deep despair that comes from the sense that our industrial, consuming society… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
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I think my way of showing violence is unique from that of other filmmakers, in that when I show it, it hurts. It happens… — Takeshi Kitano Copy Share Image
Liberalism, on the other hand, regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situations, in which there is no… — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
“I'm beginning to feel as though everything has happened before, that our story has already been told. Just as we were powerless to stop… — Helen Humphreys Copy Share Image
“These things happen. And we say to ourselves, “Never again.” And a hundred years pass. And they happen. Again.” — Qntm Copy Share Image
Senescence is an inevitability. All we can do is try to strike the balance between graceful acceptance and raging against the dying light. — Marty Nemko Copy Share Image
What we, thanks to Jung, call "synchronicity" (coincidence on steroids), Buddhists have long known as "the interpenetration of realities." Whether it's a natural law… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
My will broke at the sound of his voice, and my head turned with as much inevitability as a sunflower turning its face to… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
“We are so used to the notion of our own inevitability as life’s dominant species that it is hard to grasp that we are… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
