230 Quotes by Matthew Desmond

You can get out of maintaining property at code if the family is behind on rent.

All homeowners in America may deduct mortgage interest on their first and second homes.

Eviction riots erupted during the Depression, though the number of poor families who faced eviction each year was a fraction of what it is today.

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.'

Hundreds of data-mining companies sell landlords tenant-screening reports that list past evictions and court filings.

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.

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.

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.

Housing is a social issue: how we live and where we live.