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

Matthew Desmond

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" Families, when they get a housing voucher, they move a lot less. They move into better neighborhoods. Their kids go to the same school more consistently. Their kids have more food, and they get stronger. There are massive returns. "

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" You lose your home, you are much more likely to lose your job the year following. The reason for that comes back to the bandwidth problem: You're so focused on this event that you're making mistakes at work; you can relocate further from work, which can increase your tardiness and absenteeism and cause you to lose your job. "

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" You see one eviction, and you're overcome, but then there's another one and another one and another one. "

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" This country has so much wealth and so much poverty, and that seemed wrong to me. 'Evicted' was my Ph.D. dissertation. "

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" Losing a home sends families to shelters, abandoned houses, and the street. "

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" There are moving companies specializing in evictions, their crews working all day, every weekday. "

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