Quotes by : Matthew Desmond

For many landlords, it was cheaper to deal with the expense of eviction than to maintain their properties;....

Universal housing programs have been successfully implemented all over the developed world. In countries....

But equal treatment in an unequal society could still foster inequality. Because black men were disproportionately....

There were evictions that I saw that I know I'll never forget. In one case, the sheriff and the movers....

In 1930, the death rate for Milwaukee’s blacks was nearly 60 percent higher than the citywide rate,....

Evictions were deserved, understood to be the outcome of individual failure. They “helped get rid of....

It was an old tradition: landlords barring children from their properties. In the competitive postwar....

The home is the center of life. It is a refuge from the grind of work, the pressure of school, and the....

The profits were staggering. In 1966, a Chicago landlord told a court that on a single property he had....

In 2013, 1 percent of poor renters lived in rent-controlled units; 15 percent lived in public housing;....