Matthew Desmond Quotes
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National data on evictions aren't collected, although national data on foreclosures are. And so if anyone wants to, kind of, get to know any statistical research about evictions, they have to really dig in the annals of legal records.
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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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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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Eviction is part of a business model at the bottom of the market.
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I come from a specific tradition of sociology, which is urban ethnography.
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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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Eviction is much more an inevitability than a result of irresponsibility.
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You lose your home, you are much more likely to lose your job the year following. The reason for that comes back to the bandwidth problem: You're so focused on this event that you're making mistakes at work; you can relocate further from work, which can increase your tardiness and absenteeism and cause you to lose your job.