Matthew Desmond - Most Americans think that the typical...

Most Americans think that the typical low - income family lives in public housing or gets housing assistance. The opposite is true.

Matthew Desmond

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Author Profession: Sociologist

Nationality: American

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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 Children Community

Fire itself is very beautiful, and there's an attachment to fire that firefighters have.

Matthew Desmond

Beautiful Fire Firefighters 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.

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Health People Job Lose

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 Fire Fight Roads

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 Change Time Together

A fire in a forest is alive with terror and power.

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Fire Power Forest Alive

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.

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Money Problem Poor Student

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.

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Life Family Home You

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 People Game Poverty

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.

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Man City Poor Talking

There is a reason so many Americans choose to develop their net worth through homeownership: It is a proven wealth builder and savings compeller.

Matthew Desmond

Wealth Worth Choose Reason

Home is the center of life. It's the wellspring of personhood. It's where we say we're ourselves.

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Life Home Say Where

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.

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Time Battle Losing Writing

Exploitation. Now, there's a word that has been scrubbed out of the poverty debate.

Matthew Desmond

Poverty Debate Now Out

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