Quotes by Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

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Arleen thanked Pana. Getting off the phone, she thanked Jesus. She smiled. When she smiled she looked like a different p — Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Arleen’s children did not always have a home. They did not always have food. Arleen was not always able to offer them st — Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
One's sovereignty over the land is expressed most powerfully in the act of banishment. Perhaps the first eviction record — Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
One in two recently evicted mothers reports multiple symptoms of clinical depression, double the rate of similar mothers — Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
By and large, the poor do not want some small life. They don't want to game the system or eke out an existence; they wan — Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
No one thought the poor more undeserving than the poor themselves. — Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
it is hard to argue that housing is not a fundamental human need. Decent, affordable housing should be a basic right for — Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Eviction is a cause, not just a condition, of poverty. — Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
But equal treatment in an unequal society could still foster inequality. Because black men were disproportionately incar — Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
We have the money. We’ve just made choices about how to spend it. Over the years, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle h — Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Universal housing programs have been successfully implemented all over the developed world. In countries that have such — Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Often, evicted families also lose the opportunity to benefit from public housing because Housing Authorities count evict — Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Poor families are living above their means, in apartments they cannot afford. The thing is, those apartments are already — Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Exploitation. Now, there’s a word that has been scrubbed out of the poverty debate. 42 It is a word that speaks to the f — Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
In 2013, 1 percent of poor renters lived in rent-controlled units; 15 percent lived in public housing; and 17 percent re — Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
For almost a century, there has been broad consensus in America that families should spend no more than 30 percent of th — Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
The Hinkstons expected more of their landlord for the money they were paying her. Rent was their biggest expense by far, — Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
If incarceration had come to define the lives of men from impoverished black neighborhoods, eviction was shaping the liv — Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
No moral code or ethical principle, no piece of scripture or holy teaching, can be summoned to defend what we have allow — Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
The year the police called Sherrena, Wisconsin saw more than one victim per week murdered by a current or former romanti — Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City