Quotes by : Matthew Desmond

Why young men from the country become firefighters is hard to explain to people who are not from the....

Home is where children find safety and security, where we find our identities, where citizenship starts.....

If you count all forms of involuntary displacement—formal and informal evictions, landlord foreclosures,....

Poverty is not just a sad accident, but it's also a result of the fact that some people make a lot of....

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

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....

National data on evictions aren't collected, although national data on foreclosures are. And so if anyone....

Poor families are living above their means, in apartments they cannot afford. The thing is, those apartments....

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