Desperation Quote by Matthew Desmond

Eviction riots erupted during the Depression, though the number of poor families who faced eviction each year was a fraction of what it is…

— Matthew Desmond

Eviction reveals people's vulnerability and desperation as well as their ingenuity and guts.

— Matthew Desmond

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

“Instability is not inherent to poverty. Poor families move so much because they are forced to. Along”

— 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

Poor families are living above their means, in apartments they cannot afford. The thing is, those apartments are already at the bottom of the…

— Matthew Desmond

When food prices surge, poor families suddenly find themselves unable to afford enough nutritious food. If this happens during the first thousand days of…

— Ban Ki-moon

Kids who are poor often have families that have not really been kept informed about... how important it is to read to your child,…

— Geoffrey Canada

Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work.

— Nicholas Johnson

“By the time they are 4 years old, children from poor families have heard 32 million fewer words than children with professional parents.”

— Betty Hart

“In these circumstances people in poor families who can't pay their way are surrounded by an atmosphere of barely disguised acrimony; they stop being…

— Ernesto Che Guevara

One of society's thorniest problems is that children from poor families start school lagging badly behind their more affluent classmates in readiness.

— Richard Thaler