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Matthew Desmond
Matthew Desmond
American Sociologist
Country Me People Poverty Time You
Related authors: C. Wright Mills Charles Horton Cooley Deborah Tannen Ivan Illich Samuel P. Huntington Talcott Parsons Thomas E. Mann William Julius Wilson
Home is where children find safety and security, where we find our identities, where citizenship starts. It usually starts with believing you're part of a community, and that is essential to having a stable home. Matthew Desmond
Home You Safety Community Starts Our Security Citizenship Find Having Part Identities Essential Stable Where Children Believing
Fire itself is very beautiful, and there's an attachment to fire that firefighters have. Matthew Desmond
Beautiful Fire Attachment Firefighters Itself Very
Evictions cause job loss. Because it's such a destabilizing, stressful event, they lose their footing in the labor market. It has big impacts on people's health, especially mental health. Matthew Desmond
Health People Mental Health Cause Job Big Lose Market Impacts Mental Footing Because Loss Labor Event Stressful
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. Matthew Desmond
You Fight Fire Country Hunting Dirt Roads Fishing Lot Up Very Familiar Being Woods Grew Us Skill Who Need Set
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. Matthew Desmond
Work Time Change Together Hardships Own Community Ability Seeing Sees Potential Disadvantage Clearly Also Work Together Lives Harder Harder Time
Payday loans are but one of many financial techniques - from overdraft fees to student loans subsidizing for-profit colleges - specifically designed to pull money from the pockets of the poor. This problem generally goes unrecognized by policy makers. Matthew Desmond
Problem Money Financial Colleges Pockets Student Student Loans Generally Fees Policy Makers Goes Poor Many Specifically Techniques Designed Pull Loans
Home is the wellspring of personhood, where our identity takes root; where civic life begins. America is supposed to be a place where you can better yourself, your family, and your community. Matthew Desmond
Life Home Family You Yourself Better Community Our Our Community Civic Takes Supposed Identity Wellspring Begins America Where Place Personhood Root Your
The poor don't want some small life. They don't want to game the system. They want to contribute, and they want to thrive. But poverty reduces people born for better things. Matthew Desmond
Life Game People Better Thrive Poverty System Some Born Small Better Things Contribute Want Poor Things
Many times when we are talking about displacement, we talk about it within the frame of gentrification, which focuses on transitioning neighborhoods. But man, every city I've looked at, Milwaukee included, most evictions are right there, smack dab in ungentrifying, poor, segregated communities. Matthew Desmond
Man Every Frame Neighborhoods City About Smack Segregated Most Looked Talk Talking Within Times Which Poor Transitioning Communities Many Displacement Included Right Milwaukee
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.' Matthew Desmond
Country Live Think Having Part Housing Answer Question Lot Yes Stable Decent Should Means Flows
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. Matthew Desmond
Time Battle Writing Losing Living Teeming Took Our Kids Cities About Slums He Wrote Because Without Were Won Heat Tuberculosis Jacob Dying Toes Homes Philadelphia
Exploitation. Now, there's a word that has been scrubbed out of the poverty debate. Matthew Desmond
Debate Word Poverty Exploitation Out Has-Been Been Now
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. Matthew Desmond
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Between 2007 and 2010, the average white family experienced an 11% reduction in wealth, but the average black family lost 31% of its wealth. The average Hispanic family lost 44.7%. Matthew Desmond
Family Wealth Black Lost White Black Family Between Reduction Hispanic Experienced Average
I love Milwaukee, the rust belt. It's a very special part of America that's full of promise but also full of pain, where poverty is acute. Matthew Desmond
Love Poverty Pain Promise Rust Part Also Very America Where Full Special Acute Belt Milwaukee
Do we believe housing is a right and that affordable housing is part of what it should mean to be an American? I say yes. Matthew Desmond
Affordable Housing Believe Say Part Housing Yes Affordable American Mean Should Right
It takes a good amount of time and money to establish a home. Eviction can erase all that. Matthew Desmond
Time Good Home Money Takes Erase Time And Money Establish Amount
You do learn how to cope from those who are coping. Matthew Desmond
You Those Learn How Who Cope Coping
A lot of people didn't know just what eviction does to people, how it really sets their life on a different and much more difficult path, acting not like a condition of poverty but a cause of it. Matthew Desmond
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Just strictly from a business standpoint, kids are a liability to landlords, and they actually provoke evictions. Matthew Desmond
Business Strictly Kids Provoke Just Landlords Standpoint Actually Liability
Ours was not always a nation of homeowners; the New Deal fashioned it so, particularly through the G.I. Bill of Rights. Matthew Desmond
Rights Nation Ours Through New Particularly New Deal Deal Always Bill Bill Of Rights
Tenants don't have any right to court-appointed attorneys in civil court, so they're either facing their landlord - or his or her attorney - alone, or they just don't show up. That reflects a severe power imbalance. Matthew Desmond
Alone Power Imbalance Severe Civil Facing Attorney Attorneys Court His Up Reflects Any Just Either Landlord Show Her Right
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. Matthew Desmond
Will Poverty Else Our Resources Neighborhoods Cities Something Something Else Along Go Continue Lack Commonplace Poor Tolerate Level
American greatness can be further unlocked if opportunity is expanded to all people within its borders. Matthew Desmond
People Opportunity Unlocked Further All People Borders Within Greatness American
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. Matthew Desmond
Time Focus Big Francisco Cities About Having Tend Detroit Toughest Written New Global Camden Lot America York New York Stories Newark San San Francisco Urban Margins
Some white Milwakeeans still referred to the North side as 'the cire', as they did in the 1960s, and if they ventured into it, they saw street after street of sagging duplexes, fading murals, twenty-four hour daycares, and corner stores with 'WIC Accepted Here' signs. Matthew Desmond
Signs White Corner Side Saw Some Fading Hour Accepted Still Referred North Did Stores After Twenty-Four Street Mural Here
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