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“Housing is absolutely essential to human flourishing. Without stable shelter, it all falls apart.”

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I don't think we can fix poverty without fixing housing, and I don't think we can address housing without understanding landlords.

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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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I think that we value fairness in this country. We value equal opportunity. Without a stable home, those ideals really fall apart.

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

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Fire itself is very beautiful, and there's an attachment to fire that firefighters have.

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

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