Matthew Desmond Quotes
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Since evictions go through court, it has a record that comes with it, and many landlords that I spend time with use that as a big screening mechanism. And that's really the reason, we think, families are pushed into worse housing and worse neighborhoods after their evictions.
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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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An eviction is an incredibly time consuming and stressful event.
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My dad was a preacher.
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Between 2007 and 2010, the average white family experienced an 11% reduction in wealth, but the average black family lost 31% of its wealth. The average Hispanic family lost 44.7%.
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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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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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I see myself working in the tradition of sociology and journalism that tries to bear witness to poverty.
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These days, there are sheriff squads whose full-time job is to carry out eviction and foreclosure orders. There are moving companies specializing in evictions, their crews working all day, every weekday.
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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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It takes a good amount of time and money to establish a home. Eviction can erase all that.
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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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If you just catalog the effects eviction has on people's live and neighborhoods, it's pretty troubling.
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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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African American women, and moms in particular, are evicted at disproportionately high rates.
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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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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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Eviction is fundamentally changing the face of poverty.
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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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You can get out of maintaining property at code if the family is behind on rent.
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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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Most Americans think that the typical low - income family lives in public housing or gets housing assistance. The opposite is true.
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Kids increase people's risk of eviction.