Quotes by : Matthew Desmond

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

No one thought the poor more undeserving than the poor themselves.

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

For almost a century, there has been broad consensus in America that families should spend no more than....

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

Our cities have become unaffordable to our poorest families, and this problem is leaving a deep and jagged....

Urban landlords quickly realized that piles of money could be made by creating slums: “maximum profits....

Families with children were turned away in as many as 7 in 10 housing searches.

Fewer and fewer families can afford a roof over their head. This is among the most urgent and pressing....

Most poor people in America were like Arleen: they did not live in public housing or apartments subsidized....