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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
Eviction affects old folks and young folks, sick people and able-bodied people, white communities and African-American communities. Matthew Desmond
People Old Young White Sick Folks Affects African-American Communities
Libraries are not just places where people go read a book, but places where an immigrant goes to take English lessons and where folks out of a job search for community. Matthew Desmond
Book People Job Community Libraries Immigrant Out Folks Take Read Go Goes Just Where Places English Lessons Search
If I wrote in Michael Harrington's time, roughly 50 years later when he published 'The Other America', I'd still be writing about poverty and also entrenched racial injustice. Matthew Desmond
Time Injustice Writing Poverty Other Later About Entrenched He Also Wrote Still Years Michael America Racial Roughly Published
We have failed to fully appreciate how deeply housing is implicated in the creation of poverty. Matthew Desmond
Poverty Creation Failed Housing How Fully Deeply Appreciate
Evictions used to be rare in this country. They used to draw crowds. There are scenes in literature where you can come upon an eviction - like, in 'Invisible Man' there's the famous eviction scene in Harlem, and people are gathered around, and they move the family back in. Matthew Desmond
Family You Man People Rare Country Back Draw Scene Scenes Crowds Invisible Come Like Around Move Famous Where Literature Used Harlem Gathered
You can get out of maintaining property at code if the family is behind on rent. Matthew Desmond
Family You Property Out Maintaining Rent Get Behind Code
Almost a decade removed from the foreclosure crisis that began in 2008, the nation is facing one of the worst affordable-housing shortages in generations. Matthew Desmond
Nation Worst Crisis Facing Generations Almost Began Decade Shortages
In February 1932, the 'Times' published an account of community resistance to the eviction of three families in the Bronx, observing, 'Probably because of the cold, the crowd numbered only 1,000.' Matthew Desmond
Three Community Cold Bronx Only Crowd February Observing Because Account Times Families Published Resistance Numbered
Hundreds of data-mining companies sell landlords tenant-screening reports that list past evictions and court filings. Matthew Desmond
Past Hundreds Court Sell Reports List Landlords Companies
Between 2009 and 2011, more than one in eight Milwaukee renters were displaced involuntarily, whether by formal or informal eviction, landlord foreclosure, or building condemnation. Matthew Desmond
Building More Between Condemnation Were Than Eight Formal Informal Whether Landlord Displaced Milwaukee
National data on evictions aren't collected, although national data on foreclosures are. And so if anyone wants to, kind of, get to know any statistical research about evictions, they have to really dig in the annals of legal records. Matthew Desmond
Legal National Research Dig Statistical Collected Kind About Data Records Know Although Get Any Anyone Wants Really
What we're seeing is that even in high poverty neighborhoods, the average cost of renting is quickly approaching the total income of welfare recipients and low wage workers. Matthew Desmond
Welfare Approaching Poverty Recipients Neighborhoods High Total Seeing Cost Renting Wage Quickly Low Average Workers Even Income
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
Me Books Tell Some Talk Because Around How Hard Popping Keep
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. Matthew Desmond
Crime Poverty Before Live Worse Neighborhoods Rates Tend Higher Housing Families Than Get Did Who
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. Matthew Desmond
Time Big Think Spend Worse Neighborhoods Record Through Pushed Since Court Housing Go Families Screening After Landlords Really Use Reason Many Mechanism
Kids increase people's risk of eviction. Matthew Desmond
People Increase Kids Risk
Moms that get evicted are depressed and have higher rates of depressive symptoms two years later. That has to affect their interactions with their kids and their sense of happiness. You add all that together, and it's just really obvious to me that eviction is a cause, not just a condition, of poverty. Matthew Desmond
Happiness Me You Together Cause Poverty Sense Add Symptoms Later Kids Rates Higher Obvious Affect Years Condition Get Just Interactions Depressed Depressive Really Moms Two
I think there are ways that graduate students can fact-check their work. I think there are ways that we can do this that don't require massive amounts of resources. Matthew Desmond
Work Think Resources Ways Students Massive Graduate Graduate Students Require Amount
When you're following people after their eviction, they often start out kind of optimistic, in a way - it's a really tough time, but it's also like a new start. Who knows where they might end up? Matthew Desmond
Time You People Tough Way Out Kind Following Tough Time New Like Also Knows End Up Optimistic Often Where After Might Really Who Start
Eviction reveals people's vulnerability and desperation as well as their ingenuity and guts. Matthew Desmond
People Desperation Guts Well Vulnerability Reveals Ingenuity
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. Matthew Desmond
Depression Health You Yourself Living About Only Could Like Also Overcrowding Because Housing Conditions Blow Psychological Mold Your Awful Things Bring
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. Matthew Desmond
Decision Country Own Rich Our Spend Unable About More Housing Least Bulk Dollars Repeating Up Affluent Afford Going Stop Being Public Should
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