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And families forced from their homes are pushed into undesirable parts of the city, moving from poor neighborhoods into even poorer ones; from…
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Matthew Desmond • Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Fewer and fewer families can afford a roof over their head. This is among the most urgent and pressing issues facing America today, and acknowledging the breadth and depth of the problem changes the way we look at poverty. For decades, we’ve focused mainly on jobs, public assistance, parenting, and mass incarceration. No one can deny the importance
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the largest and best-known example of this to date is the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) study. The MTO study is a five-city RCT started by the Department of Housing and Urban Development in the 1990s. Some 4,600 very low-income families in Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York City were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: an
... See moreJohn MacDonald • Changing Places: The Science and Art of New Urban Planning
We could flip the delivery system to achieve the same ends, extending welfare to the poor by cutting payroll taxes for low-income workers (as France has) while replacing the mortgage interest deduction with a check mailed out to homeowners each month. The
Matthew Desmond • Poverty, by America
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
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a decade after the passage of the Affordable Care Act.[4]
Matthew Desmond • Poverty, by America
Most evicted households in Milwaukee have children living in them, and across the country, many evicted children end up homeless. The substandard housing and unsafe neighborhoods to which many evicted families must relocate can degrade a child’s health, ability to learn, and sense of self-worth.22 And if eviction has lasting effects on mothers’…
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Matthew Desmond • Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
On top of the pain, poverty is instability. Over the past twenty years, rents have soared while incomes have fallen for renters; yet the federal government provides housing assistance to only one in four of the families who qualify for