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Matthew Desmond Quotes

American - Sociologist | -

African American women, and moms in particular, are evicted at disproportionately high rates.

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Women American High African American

It's true that eviction affects the young and the old, the sick and the able-bodied. It affects white folks and black folks and Hispanic folks and immigrants. If you spend time in housing court, you see a really diverse array of folks there.

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Time Sick Black You Immigrants True

When you meet people who are spending 70, 80 percent of their income on rent, eviction becomes much more of an inevitability than the result of personal irresponsibility.

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People Result You Meet Personal Who

Eviction is part of a business model at the bottom of the market.

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Business Bottom Market Model Part

If eviction has these massive consequences that we all pay for, a very smart use of public funds would be to invest in legal services for folks facing eviction.

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Smart Legal Consequences Pay Invest

In a way, no one's harder on the poor than the poor themselves.

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Way Poor Harder Than Themselves

If we take a hard look at what poverty is, its nature, it's not pretty - it's full of trauma.

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Nature Poverty Look Trauma Hard

The texture and hardship of poverty and eviction is something that I think left the deepest impression on me, and I hope that I try to convey a little bit of that to the reader.

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Hope Me Think Poverty Hardship Try

It is very rare in the life of an intellectual to see your support network show up all at once.

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Life Support Intellectual See Rare

I came to the realization of how essential a role housing plays in the lives of the poor.

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Poor Housing Realization Role How

Poverty is a relationship that involves a lot of folks, rich and poor alike. I was looking for something that brought a lot of different people in a room. Eviction does that, embroils landlords and tenants, lawyers and social workers.

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Relationship People Looking Rich

Eviction comes with a record, too, and just as a criminal record can bar you from receiving certain benefits or getting a foothold in the labor market, the record of eviction comes with consequences as well. It can bar you from getting good housing in a good neighborhood.

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Good You Consequences Labor Housing

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