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" Families who get evicted tend to live in worse housing than they did before, and they live in neighborhoods with higher poverty rates and higher crime rates than they did before. "

Matthew Desmond

Before

Housing

Live

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" I saw people get fired after their eviction. But when I found that if you get evicted, your chances of losing your job increase by 20 percent, that's when it really hit home for me. "

Matthew Desmond

Home

Losing

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

" Healthcare providers have helped me see that decent, safe housing can promote physical and mental wellness; and engaged citizens have shown me the civic potential of stable, vibrant blocks where neighbours know one another by name. "

Matthew Desmond

Potential

Name

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

" The cost of evictions varies a lot, but it could be for landlords an expensive process as well. Among the costs for landlords as well is the emotional costs of an eviction. "

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

" Kids increase people's risk of eviction. "

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

" You can get out of maintaining property at code if the family is behind on rent. "

" 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. "

" There is a deep connection, when we're talking about certain market forces and a legal structure that inhibits low or moderate income families from getting ahead. Eviction is part of a business model at the bottom of the market. "

" I think I've read all of W.E.B. Du Bois, which is a lot. He started off with comprehensive field work in Philadelphia, publishing a book in 1899 called 'The Philadelphia Negro'. It was this wonderful combination of clear statistical data and ethnographic data. "

" 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. "

Matthew Desmond

Life

Know

" A universal voucher program would change the face of poverty in this country. "

" I come from a specific tradition of sociology, which is urban ethnography. "

" The home is the center of life - a refuge from the grind of work, pressure of school, menace of the streets, a place to be ourselves. "

" These days, there are sheriff squads whose full-time job is to carry out eviction and foreclosure orders. There are moving companies specializing in evictions, their crews working all day, every weekday. "

" Poverty was a relationship, I thought, involving poor and rich people alike. "

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

" I fought fires in the summer, and then I went back and did it again when I went to graduate school. "

" Children didn't shield families from eviction: They exposed them to it. "

" Eviction is fundamentally changing the face of poverty. "

" Evictions used to be rare in this country. They used to draw crowds. There are scenes in literature where you can come upon an eviction - like, in 'Invisible Man' there's the famous eviction scene in Harlem, and people are gathered around, and they move the family back in. "

" My dad was a preacher. "

Matthew Desmond

Dad

Preacher

" A lot of us who grew up in the country, hunting and fishing, being very familiar with the woods and dirt roads, have the skill set you need to fight fire. "