Bruce Lesley

“Universal housing programs have been successfully implemented all over the developed world. In countries that have such programs, every single family with an income below a certain level who meets basic program requirements has a right to housing assistance.”
― Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

“Whatever our way out of this mess, one thing is certain. This degree of inequality, this withdrawal of opportunity, this cold denial of basic needs, this endorsement of pointless suffering—by no American value is this situation justified. No moral code or ethical principle, no piece of scripture or holy teaching, can be summoned to defend what we have allowed our country to become.”
― Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

“We have failed to fully appreciate how deeply housing is implicated in the creation of poverty.”
― Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

“Families who spend more on housing spend less on their children.”
― Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City