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Everywhere else, we are someone else, but at home, we remove our masks.

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Just as incarceration has come to define the lives of low-income black men, eviction is defining the lives of low-income black women.

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The high cost of housing is crushing poor families and sending them to a state of desperation.

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A lot of people didn't know just what eviction does to people, how it really sets their life on a different and much more difficult path, acting not like a condition of poverty but a cause of it.

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Payday loans are but one of many financial techniques - from overdraft fees to student loans subsidizing for-profit colleges - specifically designed to pull money from the pockets of the poor. This problem generally goes unrecognized by policy makers.

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Ours was not always a nation of homeowners; the New Deal fashioned it so, particularly through the G.I. Bill of Rights.

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There were evictions that I saw that I know I'll never forget. In one case, the sheriff and the movers came up on a house full of children. The mom had passed away, and the children had just gone on living there. And the sheriff executed the eviction order - moved the kids' stuff out on the street on a cold, rainy day.

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I'm from a small town, and I thought I would be a lawyer.

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I love Milwaukee, the rust belt. It's a very special part of America that's full of promise but also full of pain, where poverty is acute.

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When I was confronted with just the bare facts of poverty and inequality in America, it always disturbed and confused me.

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I think that we value fairness in this country. We value equal opportunity. Without a stable home, those ideals really fall apart.

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If incarceration had come to define the lives of men from impoverished black neighborhoods, eviction was shaping the lives of women. Poor black men were locked up. Poor black women were locked out.

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