Famous Matthew Desmond Quotes

  • Our cities have become unaffordable to our poorest families, and this problem is leaving a deep and jagged scar on our next generation. – Matthew Desmond

    Our cities have become unaffordable to our poorest families, and this problem is leaving a deep and jagged scar on our next generation.– Matthew Desmond

  • Families with children were turned away in as many as 7 in 10 housing searches. – Matthew Desmond

    Families with children were turned away in as many as 7 in 10 housing searches.– Matthew Desmond

  • In 1930, the death rate for Milwaukee’s blacks was nearly 60 percent higher than the citywide rate, due in large part to poor housing conditions. – Matthew Desmond

    In 1930, the death rate for Milwaukee’s blacks was nearly 60 percent higher than the citywide rate, due in large part to poor housing conditions.– Matthew Desmond

  • It was not that low-income renters didn’t know their rights. They just knew those rights would cost them. – Matthew Desmond

    It was not that low-income renters didn’t know their rights. They just knew those rights would cost them.– Matthew Desmond

  • 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

    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

  • Eviction is a cause, not just a condition, of poverty. – Matthew Desmond

    Eviction is a cause, not just a condition, of poverty.– Matthew Desmond

  • No one thought the poor more undeserving than the poor themselves. – Matthew Desmond

    No one thought the poor more undeserving than the poor themselves.– Matthew Desmond

  • By and large, the poor do not want some small life. They don’t want to game the system or eke out an existence; they want to thrive and contribute. – Matthew Desmond

    By and large, the poor do not want some small life. They don’t want to game the system or eke out an existence; they want to thrive and contribute.– Matthew Desmond