Author: Matthew Desmond

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Between 2007 and 2010, the average white family experienced an 11% reduction in wealth, but the average black family lost 31% of its wealth. The average Hispanic family lost 44.7%.

Between 2007 and 2010, the average white family experienced an 11% reduction in wealth, but the average black family lost 31% of its wealth. The average Hispanic family lost 44.7%.

- Matthew Desmond

I love Milwaukee, the rust belt. It's a very special part of America that's full of promise but also full of pain, where poverty is acute.

I love Milwaukee, the rust belt. It's a very special part of America that's full of promise but also full of pain, where poverty is acute.

- Matthew Desmond

If we care about family stability, if we care about community stability, then we need fewer evictions.

If we care about family stability, if we care about community stability, then we need fewer evictions.

- Matthew Desmond

Just as incarceration has come to define the lives of low-income black men, eviction is defining the lives of low-income black women.

Just as incarceration has come to define the lives of low-income black men, eviction is defining the lives of low-income black women.

- Matthew Desmond

Everywhere else, we are someone else, but at home, we remove our masks.

Everywhere else, we are someone else, but at home, we remove our masks.

- Matthew Desmond

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