Quotes by : Matthew Desmond

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

We have the money. We’ve just made choices about how to spend it. Over the years, lawmakers on both....

it is hard to argue that housing is not a fundamental human need. Decent, affordable housing should be....

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

One in two recently evicted mothers reports multiple symptoms of clinical depression, double the rate....

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

Exploitation. Now, there’s a word that has been scrubbed out of the poverty debate. 42 It is a word....

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

Evictions used to be rare in this country. They used to draw crowds. There are scenes in literature where....

If eviction has these massive consequences that we all pay for, a very smart use of public funds would....