Ethan

“We suggested she obtain a gun and kill him in self defense, but evidently she hasn’t. Therefore, we are evicting her.”
― Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

“Trailer park residents rarely raised a fuss about a neighbor’s eviction, whether that person was a known drug addict or not. Evictions were deserved, understood to be the outcome of individual failure. They “helped get rid of the riffraff,” some said. No one thought the poor more undeserving than the poor themselves”
― Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

“Men often avoided eviction by laying concrete, patching roofs, or painting rooms for landlords. But women almost never approached their landlord with a similar offer. Some women—already taxed by child care, welfare requirements, or work obligations—could not spare the time. But many others simply did not conceive of working off the rent as a possibility. When women did approach their landlords with such an offer, it sometimes involved trading sex for rent.11”
― Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

“How a tenant responded to an eviction notice could make the difference. Women tended not to negotiate their eviction like men did, and they were more likely to avoid landlords when they fell behind. These responses did not serve them well.”
― Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City