Matthew Desmond Quotes
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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.
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Just strictly from a business standpoint, kids are a liability to landlords, and they actually provoke evictions.
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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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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.
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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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Eviction is part of a business model at the bottom of the market.
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Eviction is much more an inevitability than a result of irresponsibility.