Matthew Desmond - If eviction has these massiv...

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.

Matthew Desmond

American Sociologist

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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln

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It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one. Voltaire

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I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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