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" Eviction is much more an inevitability than a result of irresponsibility. "

Matthew Desmond

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" The church should lead on issues of housing and affordability. "

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" Public-sector union organisers have told me about how firefighters, police officers, and nurses can no longer afford to live in the cities they serve and protect. "

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

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" The face of America's eviction epidemic is a mom with kids. "

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" The standard of 'affordable' housing is that which costs roughly 30 percent or less of a family's income. Because of rising housing costs and stagnant wages, slightly more than half of all poor renting families in the country spend more than 50 percent of their income on housing costs, and at least one in four spends more than 70 percent. "

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" Eviction affects old folks and young folks, sick people and able-bodied people, white communities and African-American communities. "

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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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" I met a landlord who will pay you to move at the end of the week and let you use his van. That's a really nice kind of eviction. I met a landlord who will take your door off. There are 101 ways to move a family out. "

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" Some white Milwakeeans still referred to the North side as 'the cire', as they did in the 1960s, and if they ventured into it, they saw street after street of sagging duplexes, fading murals, twenty-four hour daycares, and corner stores with 'WIC Accepted Here' signs. "

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" I had come to college believing in a story that if you worked hard, the American dream was reachable. "

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" Kids increase people's risk of eviction. "

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" When I talk to booksellers, they tell me how hard it is to hand-sell some of my books because I do keep popping around. "

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" Differences in homeownership rates remain the prime driver of the nation's racial wealth gap. "

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" A fire in a forest is alive with terror and power. "

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" I don't think we can fix poverty without fixing housing, and I don't think we can address housing without understanding landlords. "

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" What we're seeing is that even in high poverty neighborhoods, the average cost of renting is quickly approaching the total income of welfare recipients and low wage workers. "

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