Matthew Desmond Quotes
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Between 2009 and 2011, more than one in eight Milwaukee renters were displaced involuntarily, whether by formal or informal eviction, landlord foreclosure, or building condemnation.
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If you just catalog the effects eviction has on people's live and neighborhoods, it's pretty troubling.
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Children didn't shield families from eviction: They exposed them to it.
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My dad was a preacher.
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You lose your home, you lose your community, you lose your school, you lose your stuff.
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The things you're closest to are often the things you know least about.
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In February 1932, the 'Times' published an account of community resistance to the eviction of three families in the Bronx, observing, 'Probably because of the cold, the crowd numbered only 1,000.'
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Even growing up the way I did, I was shocked by the level of poverty I saw as a college student. I thought the best way to understand it was to get close to it on the ground level.
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Eviction riots erupted during the Depression, though the number of poor families who faced eviction each year was a fraction of what it is today.
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Ours was not always a nation of homeowners; the New Deal fashioned it so, particularly through the G.I. Bill of Rights.
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Everywhere else, we are someone else, but at home, we remove our masks.
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An eviction is an incredibly time consuming and stressful event.
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If we care about family stability, if we care about community stability, then we need fewer evictions.
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If I wrote in Michael Harrington's time, roughly 50 years later when he published 'The Other America', I'd still be writing about poverty and also entrenched racial injustice.
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Substandard housing was a blow to your psychological health, not only because things like dampness, mold, and overcrowding could bring about depression but also because of what living in awful conditions told you about yourself.
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It takes a good amount of time and money to establish a home. Eviction can erase all that.
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You can get out of maintaining property at code if the family is behind on rent.
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African American women, and moms in particular, are evicted at disproportionately high rates.
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I see myself working in the tradition of sociology and journalism that tries to bear witness to poverty.
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I teach at Harvard, and focusing on understanding this problem on a national level is a big priority of mine right now - where evictions are going up and down, what cities are actually instituting policies that work, what housing insecurity is doing to our cities, neighbourhoods, our kids.
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Poverty was a relationship, I thought, involving poor and rich people alike.
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Fire itself is very beautiful, and there's an attachment to fire that firefighters have.
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Eviction is fundamentally changing the face of poverty.
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I saw people get fired after their eviction. But when I found that if you get evicted, your chances of losing your job increase by 20 percent, that's when it really hit home for me.