Best quotes by Matthew Desmond on Poverty

Checkout quotes by Matthew Desmond on Poverty

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

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• ‟ Poverty is a relationship that involves a lot of folks, rich and poor alike. I was looking for something that brought a lot of different people in a room. Eviction does that, embroils landlords and tenants, lawyers and social workers.

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

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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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• ‟ Exploitation. Now, there's a word that has been scrubbed out of the poverty debate.

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• ‟ Eviction is fundamentally changing the face of poverty.

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• ‟ If we continue to tolerate this level of poverty in our cities, and go along with eviction as commonplace in poor neighborhoods, it's not for a lack of resources. It will be a lack of something else.

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

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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 wanted to write a book about poverty that wasn't only about the poor. I was looking for some sort of narrative device, a phenomenon that would allow me to draw in a lot of different players. I was like, 'Shoot, eviction does that.'

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