Cannot Quote by Matthew Desmond

“Families who spend more on housing spend less on their children.23 Poor families are living above their means, in apartments they cannot afford. The…

— Matthew Desmond

The high cost of housing is crushing poor families and sending them to a state of desperation.

— 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

Low rents mean families have more resources to improve their quality of life and invest in the next generation, facilitating upward mobility.

— Carrie Lam

What we're seeing is that even in high poverty neighborhoods, the average cost of renting is quickly approaching the total income of welfare recipients…

— Matthew Desmond

Instead of building housing in a wealthy neighborhood and saying, here you go, here's some under the market which will, by the way, drop…

— Eric Bolling

Most poor families are living completely unassisted in a private rental market, devoting most of their income to housing. When you meet people who…

— 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

“Most federal housing subsidies benefit families with six-figure incomes.59 If we are going to spend the bulk of our public dollars on the affluent—at…

— Matthew Desmond

“Families who spend more on housing spend less on their children.”

— Matthew Desmond

There is plenty of housing - for the rich. But a series of outrageous policies ensure that it remains inaccessible to the poor.

— George Monbiot

Moderately priced homes might draw working families in a metro area. And having rising incomes at the top might price lower-income families out.

— Annie Lowrey