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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Sag Harbor’ brought me a new readership – it’s a coming of age tale about growing up in the ’80s. Matthew Desmond Read Quote
Child Protection Services can get all up in your business if you have kids. Just strictly from a business standpoint, kids are a liability to landlords, and they actually provoke evictions. Matthew Desmond Read Quote
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 Read Quote
You lose your home, you are much more likely to lose your job the year following. The reason for that comes back to the bandwidth problem: You’re so focused on this event that you’re making mistakes at work; you can relocate further from work, which can increase your tardiness and absenteeism and cause you to lose your job. Matthew Desmond Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
