Actually Quote by Matthew Desmond

Kids increase people's risk of eviction.

— Matthew Desmond

Child Protection Services can get all up in your business if you have kids. Just strictly from a business standpoint, kids are a liability…

— Matthew Desmond

Children didn't shield families from eviction: They exposed them to it.

— Matthew Desmond

There is a deep connection, when we're talking about certain market forces and a legal structure that inhibits low or moderate income families from…

— Matthew Desmond

“The effect of living with children on receiving an eviction judgment was equivalent to falling four months behind in rent.12”

— Matthew Desmond

Evictions cause job loss. Because it's such a destabilizing, stressful event, they lose their footing in the labor market. It has big impacts on…

— Matthew Desmond

“the presence of children in the household almost tripled a tenant’s odds of receiving an eviction judgment.”

— Matthew Desmond

“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

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

Since evictions go through court, it has a record that comes with it, and many landlords that I spend time with use that as…

— Matthew Desmond

For families to access affordable housing, they often need legal representation that takes their side against abusive landlords.

— Nydia Velazquez

If you just catalog the effects eviction has on people's live and neighborhoods, it's pretty troubling.

— Matthew Desmond