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Just as incarceration has come to define the lives of low-income black men, eviction is defining the lives of low-income black women.
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Eviction comes with a record, too, and just as a criminal record can bar you from receiving certain benefits or getting a foothold in the labor market, the record of eviction comes with consequences as well. It can bar you from getting good housing in a good neighborhood.
Matthew Desmond
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This country has so much wealth and so much poverty, and that seemed wrong to me. 'Evicted' was my Ph.D. dissertation.
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I come from a specific tradition of sociology, which is urban ethnography.
Matthew Desmond -
I fought fires in the summer, and then I went back and did it again when I went to graduate school.
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My dad was a preacher.
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Eviction is much more an inevitability than a result of irresponsibility.
Matthew Desmond -
When I want to understand a problem, I want to understand it from the ground level.
Matthew Desmond