Family Quote by Matthew Desmond

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

“Families have watched their incomes stagnate, or even fall, while their housing costs have soared. Today, the majority of poor renting families in America…

— Matthew Desmond

Families who get evicted tend to live in worse housing than they did before, and they live in neighborhoods with higher poverty rates and…

— Matthew Desmond

Moms that get evicted are depressed and have higher rates of depressive symptoms two years later. That has to affect their interactions with their…

— Matthew Desmond

The standard of 'affordable' housing is that which costs roughly 30 percent or less of a family's income. Because of rising housing costs and…

— Matthew Desmond

“Tenants in eviction court were generally poor, and almost all of them (92 percent) had missed rent payments. The majority spent at least half…

— Matthew Desmond

A lot of people didn't know just what eviction does to people, how it really sets their life on a different and much more…

— 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

“Today, the majority of poor renting families in America spend over half of their income on housing, and at least one in four dedicates…

— Matthew Desmond

“Residential stability begets a kind of psychological stability, which allows people to invest in their home and social relationships. It begets school stability, which…

— Matthew Desmond

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

“Along with instability, eviction also causes loss. Families lose not only their home, school, and neighborhood but also their possessions: furniture, clothes, books. It…

— Matthew Desmond