Parenting Quote by Matthew Desmond

“When people have a place to live, they become better parents, workers, and citizens. If” quote by Matthew Desmond — Download Open image

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I don't think we can fix poverty without fixing housing, and I don't think we can address housing without understanding landlords.

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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…

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You see one eviction, and you're overcome, but then there's another one and another one and another one.

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When I talk to booksellers, they tell me how hard it is to hand-sell some of my books because I do keep popping around.

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Housing being a top-order issue for cities is something that's not trivial.

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I think that we value fairness in this country. We value equal opportunity. Without a stable home, those ideals really fall apart.

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Exploitation. Now, there's a word that has been scrubbed out of the poverty debate.

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I think there are ways that graduate students can fact-check their work. I think there are ways that we can do this that don't…

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Fire itself is very beautiful, and there's an attachment to fire that firefighters have.

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“Sherrena nodded reassuringly and said, almost to herself, “I guess I got to stop feeling sorry for these people because nobody is feeling sorry…

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Everywhere else, we are someone else, but at home, we remove our masks.

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A community that sees so clearly its own disadvantage or its own hardships also has a harder time seeing its potential: its ability to…

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