Affordable housing Quote by Matthew Desmond

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

Poverty should not just be made an issue - there is need to actually work on it.

— Rajnath Singh

There is extreme poverty in Appalachia, where I was, and increasingly poverty is not just an urban thing.

— Shane Claiborne

Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

The issue of poverty is not a statistical issue. It is a human issue.

— James Wolfensohn

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

“They have shown that problems endemic to poverty—residential instability, severe deprivation, concentrated neighborhood disadvantage, health disparities, even joblessness—stem from the lack of affordable housing…

— Matthew Desmond

When it comes to poverty, there is no need to say anything. All we need to do is to help, the moment we encounter…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

You have to be interested in inequality. The issue of inequality and that of poverty are not separable.

— Amartya Sen

You can't reduce poverty in a vacuum. You are doing it in an environment.

— Wangari Maathai

You almost have to create situations in order to write about them, so I live in a constant state of self-imposed poverty. I don't…

— Tom Waits

Poverty is not only about income levels, but for lack of freedom that comes from physical insecurity

— Jacqueline Novogratz