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" Just strictly from a business standpoint, kids are a liability to landlords, and they actually provoke evictions. "

Matthew Desmond

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" When you ask people why they were evicted, the big reason is nonpayment of rent. They can't afford to keep a roof over their heads. Utilities are a big part of the story too, while the third leg on the table is the lack of government help with housing. "

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" Housing is a social issue: how we live and where we live. "

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" In February 1932, the 'Times' published an account of community resistance to the eviction of three families in the Bronx, observing, 'Probably because of the cold, the crowd numbered only 1,000.' "

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" In college, when I was kind of confronted with facts and figures about inequality in America, a big impulse I had was to go hang out with homeless people around my university and hear them out and understand their situation from their perspective. "

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" 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. "

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" A lot of the stories about urban America tend to be written on the margins. We focus a lot on these big global cities - New York, San Francisco - or we focus on cities that are having the toughest time - Detroit, Newark, Camden. "

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

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" Most cities don't have a just cause eviction law. Most allow no cause evictions, as well as evictions for nonpayment. "

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

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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 church should lead on issues of housing and affordability. "

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

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" 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. "

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" Even growing up the way I did, I was shocked by the level of poverty I saw as a college student. I thought the best way to understand it was to get close to it on the ground level. "

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" Most Americans think that the typical low - income family lives in public housing or gets housing assistance. The opposite is true. "

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" I have always been really troubled by the amount of poverty in America. Americans are matched in their rich democracy with the depth and expanse of poverty. That's really always unsettled me. "

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" Housing is absolutely essential to human flourishing. Without stable shelter, it all falls apart. "

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" Arguably, the families most at need of housing assistance are systematically denied it because they're stamped with an eviction record. Moms and kids are bearing the brunt of those consequences. "

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" When you fight fires for a few seasons, you know what to expect. Your heart doesn't race as much as it did. "

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" When I left Milwaukee, and I had all these stories. I felt so responsible for people. It's a heck of a thing to do, to try to write someone's story. "

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" Without the ability to plant roots and invest in your community or your school - because you're paying 60, 70, 80 percent of your income to rent - and eviction becomes something of an inevitability to you, it denies you certain freedoms. "

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" 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. "

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" Kids increase people's risk of eviction. "

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" I don't think that you can address poverty unless you address the lack of affordable housing in the cities. "

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

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

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" Eviction reveals people's vulnerability and desperation as well as their ingenuity and guts. "

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" Poor families are living above their means, in apartments they cannot afford. The thing is, those apartments are already at the bottom of the market. "

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

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