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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. "

Matthew Desmond

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" If you look at the American Household Survey, the last time we did that in 2013, renters in over 2.8 million homes thought they would be evicted soon. "

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" Substandard housing was a blow to your psychological health, not only because things like dampness, mold, and overcrowding could bring about depression but also because of what living in awful conditions told you about yourself. "

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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. "

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" Since evictions go through court, it has a record that comes with it, and many landlords that I spend time with use that as a big screening mechanism. And that's really the reason, we think, families are pushed into worse housing and worse neighborhoods after their evictions. "

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" Housing being a top-order issue for cities is something that's not trivial. "

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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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" If you just catalog the effects eviction has on people's live and neighborhoods, it's pretty troubling. "

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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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" I left college with a deep sense that I needed to understand poverty more. "

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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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" A community that sees so clearly its own disadvantage or its own hardships also has a harder time seeing its potential: its ability to work together to change the community and change their lives. "

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" If we are going to spend the bulk of our public dollars on the affluent - at least when it comes to housing - we should own up to that decision and stop repeating the canard about this rich country being unable to afford more. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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" This was what a lot of us, mainly young men, did in the summers in northern Arizona. This is how I put myself through college. 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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" There are moving companies specializing in evictions, their crews working all day, every weekday. "

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" If I wrote in Jacob Riis' time, I'd be writing about teeming slums in our cities and kids dying of tuberculosis or outhouses in Philadelphia or kids losing their toes because they were living in homes without heat. He took on a battle in 'The Battle with the Slums' - and we won. "

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" A lot flows from the question: Is having decent, stable housing part of what it means to live in this country? And I think we should answer 'yes.' "

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" American greatness can be further unlocked if opportunity is expanded to all people within its borders. "

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" If poverty persists in America, it is not for lack of resources. We lack something else. "

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

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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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" When I was confronted with just the bare facts of poverty and inequality in America, it always disturbed and confused me. "

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" I see myself working in the tradition of sociology and journalism that tries to bear witness to poverty. "

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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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" The face of the eviction epidemic is moms and kids, especially poor moms from predominantly Latino and African American neighborhoods. "

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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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" If you have someone who is paying 88 percent of her income on rent, and we have laws that allow a landlord to evict a tenant who falls behind under those circumstances, eviction becomes an inevitability. "

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