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“Poverty measures exclude everyone in prison and jail—not to mention those housed in psych wards, halfway houses, and homeless shelters—which means there are millions more poor Americans than official statistics let on.”
― Poverty, by America
― Poverty, by America
“Eviction is a cause, not just a condition, of poverty.”
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
“We have failed to fully appreciate how deeply housing is implicated in the creation of poverty. Not everyone living in a distressed neighborhood is associated with gang members, parole officers, employers, social workers, or pastors. But nearly all of them have a landlord.”
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
“It was not that low-income renters didn’t know their rights. They just knew those rights would cost them.”
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
“‡ If you inquire into the history of the metropolitan area in which you live, you will probably find ample evidence of how the federal, state, and local governments unconstitutionally used housing policy to create or reinforce segregation in ways that still survive.”
― The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
― The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
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