Matthew Desmond

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I fought fires in the summer, and then I went back and did it again when I went to graduate school.

Matthew Desmond
fought , fires , then
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Losing a home sends families to shelters, abandoned houses, and the street.

Matthew Desmond
losing , home , sends
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An eviction is an incredibly time consuming and stressful event.

Matthew Desmond
incredibly , time , consuming
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Eviction reveals people's vulnerability and desperation as well as their ingenuity and guts.

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reveals , vulnerability , desperation
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Just strictly from a business standpoint, kids are a liability to landlords, and they actually provoke evictions.

Matthew Desmond
just , strictly , business
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I had come to college believing in a story that if you worked hard, the American dream was reachable.

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had , come , college
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Poverty was a relationship, I thought, involving poor and rich people alike.

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poverty , involving , poor
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Differences in homeownership rates remain the prime driver of the nation's racial wealth gap.

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differences , rates , remain
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When you fight fires for a few seasons, you know what to expect. Your heart doesn't race as much as it did.

Matthew Desmond
fight , fires , few
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Exploitation. Now, there's a word that has been scrubbed out of the poverty debate.

Matthew Desmond
word , been , out
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When I was confronted with just the bare facts of poverty and inequality in America, it always disturbed and confused me.

Matthew Desmond
confronted , just , bare
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I come from a specific tradition of sociology, which is urban ethnography.

Matthew Desmond
come , specific , tradition
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African American women, and moms in particular, are evicted at disproportionately high rates.

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african , american , moms
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A fire in a forest is alive with terror and power.

Matthew Desmond
fire , forest , alive
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I see myself writing in the tradition of urban ethnography and in the tradition of the sociology of poverty.

Matthew Desmond
see , myself , writing