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When you ask people why they were evicted, the big reason is nonpayment of rent. They can't afford to keep a roof over their heads. Utilities are a big part of the story too, while the third leg on the table is the lack of government help with housing.

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Most cities don't have a just cause eviction law. Most allow no cause evictions, as well as evictions for nonpayment.

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If you have someone who is paying 88 percent of her income on rent, and we have laws that allow a landlord to evict a tenant who falls behind under those circumstances, eviction becomes an inevitability.

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A lot of the stories about urban America tend to be written on the margins. We focus a lot on these big global cities - New York, San Francisco - or we focus on cities that are having the toughest time - Detroit, Newark, Camden.

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Young mothers who apply for housing assistance in our nation's capital literally could be grandmothers by the time their application is reviewed.

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I teach at Harvard, and focusing on understanding this problem on a national level is a big priority of mine right now - where evictions are going up and down, what cities are actually instituting policies that work, what housing insecurity is doing to our cities, neighbourhoods, our kids.

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I see myself writing in the tradition of urban ethnography and in the tradition of the sociology of poverty.

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Poverty is not just a sad accident, but it's also a result of the fact that some people make a lot of money off low-income families and directly contribute to their poverty.

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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.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Sociologist

Born: Unknown

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