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Housing is absolutely essential to human flourishing. Without stable shelter, it all falls apart.

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Home is where children find safety and security, where we find our identities, where citizenship starts. It usually starts with believing you're part of a community, and that is essential to having a stable home.

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

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It takes a good amount of time and money to establish a home. Eviction can erase all that.

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I don't think that you can address poverty unless you address the lack of affordable housing in the cities.

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The standard of 'affordable' housing is that which costs roughly 30 percent or less of a family's income. Because of rising housing costs and stagnant wages, slightly more than half of all poor renting families in the country spend more than 50 percent of their income on housing costs, and at least one in four spends more than 70 percent.

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Do we believe housing is a right and that affordable housing is part of what it should mean to be an American? I say yes.

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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%.

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

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Sociologist

Born: Unknown

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