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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
These days, there are sheriff squads whose full-time job is to carry out eviction and foreclosure orders. There are moving companies specializing in evictions, their crews working all day, every weekday. Matthew Desmond
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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. Matthew Desmond
People Perspective College Big Situation Out Kind About Facts Had Around Inequality Understand Go Hear America Hang Impulse Them Confronted Figures Homeless University
When I want to understand a problem, I want to understand it from the ground level. Matthew Desmond
Problem Understand Want Ground Level
This country has so much wealth and so much poverty, and that seemed wrong to me. 'Evicted' was my Ph.D. dissertation. Matthew Desmond
Me Wealth Poverty Country Dissertation Seemed Wrong Much
I think that we value fairness in this country. We value equal opportunity. Without a stable home, those ideals really fall apart. Matthew Desmond
Home Opportunity Value Country Fall Think Those Ideals Equal Equal Opportunity Fairness Without Stable Apart Really
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. Matthew Desmond
You School Plant Community Ability Percent Something Invest Freedoms Because Without Becomes Rent Inevitability Denies Certain Roots Your Paying Income
An eviction is an incredibly time consuming and stressful event. Matthew Desmond
Time Incredibly Consuming Time-Consuming Event Stressful
There are moving companies specializing in evictions, their crews working all day, every weekday. Matthew Desmond
Day Every All Day Moving Working Companies
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.' Matthew Desmond
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African American women, and moms in particular, are evicted at disproportionately high rates. Matthew Desmond
Women High Rates Particular American African African-American American Women Moms Disproportionately
When you meet people who are spending 70, 80 percent of their income on rent, eviction becomes much more of an inevitability than the result of personal irresponsibility. Matthew Desmond
You People Result Meet Spending Percent More Becomes Rent Inevitability Than Personal Irresponsibility Much Who Income
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
Legal Smart Pay Consequences Would Would-Be Folks Facing Invest Massive Very Public Use Services Funds
If we take a hard look at what poverty is, its nature, it's not pretty - it's full of trauma. Matthew Desmond
Nature Poverty Pretty Take Look Full Hard Hard Look Trauma
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. Matthew Desmond
Relationship People Poverty Looking Rich Alike Folks Brought Something Lawyers Involves Does Lot Different Social Room Poor Landlords Workers Different People Social Workers
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. Matthew Desmond
Consequences Those Kids Systematically Record Brunt Bearing Arguably Most Because Housing Denied Families Stamped Moms Assistance Need
When we think of entitlement programs, Social Security and Medicare immediately come to mind. But by any fair standard, the holy trinity of United States social policy should also include the mortgage-interest deduction - an enormous benefit that has also become politically untouchable. Matthew Desmond
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There were evictions that I saw that I know I'll never forget. In one case, the sheriff and the movers came up on a house full of children. The mom had passed away, and the children had just gone on living there. And the sheriff executed the eviction order - moved the kids' stuff out on the street on a cold, rainy day. Matthew Desmond
Day Mom Gone Living Cold Saw Kids Out Case Never Had Never Forget Stuff Know Executed House Passed Sheriff Came Were Up Forget Just Moved Children Order Full Away Street Rainy Rainy Day
Eviction causes loss. You lose not only your home but also your possessions, which are thrown onto the curb or taken by movers, and often you can't keep up payments. Matthew Desmond
Home You Lose Possessions Only Onto Thrown Taken Also Causes Loss Up Curb Often Which Your Payments Keep
I met a landlord who will pay you to move at the end of the week and let you use his van. That's a really nice kind of eviction. I met a landlord who will take your door off. There are 101 ways to move a family out. Matthew Desmond
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I see myself working in the tradition of sociology and journalism that tries to bear witness to poverty. Matthew Desmond
Myself Witness Poverty Tries See Bear Journalism Tradition Working Sociology
The high cost of housing is crushing poor families and sending them to a state of desperation. Matthew Desmond
Desperation State High Cost Crushing Housing Families Sending Them Poor
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. Matthew Desmond
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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. Matthew Desmond
Law Cause Cities Allow Most Well Just
Just as incarceration has come to define the lives of low-income black men, eviction is defining the lives of low-income black women. Matthew Desmond
Women Black Men Define Defining Come Just Low-Income Incarceration Lives
When you fight fires for a few seasons, you know what to expect. Your heart doesn't race as much as it did. Matthew Desmond
You Heart Fight Few Fires Know Expect Did Race Much Your Seasons
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. Matthew Desmond
Time You Thought Would Would-Be Soon Over Look Household Survey American Did Homes Million Last Last Time
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