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Eviction comes with a record. Just like a criminal record can hurt you in the jobs market, eviction can hurt you in the housing market. A lot of landlords turn folks away who have an eviction, and a lot of public housing authorities do the same.

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If you look at the American Household Survey, the last time we did that in 2013, renters in over 2.8 million homes thought they would be evicted soon.

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Libraries are not just places where people go read a book, but places where an immigrant goes to take English lessons and where folks out of a job search for community.

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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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If I wrote in Michael Harrington's time, roughly 50 years later when he published 'The Other America', I'd still be writing about poverty and also entrenched racial injustice.

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Exploitation. Now, there's a word that has been scrubbed out of the poverty debate.

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

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The home is the center of life - a refuge from the grind of work, pressure of school, menace of the streets, a place to be ourselves.

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Home is the wellspring of personhood, where our identity takes root; where civic life begins. America is supposed to be a place where you can better yourself, your family, and your community.

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We have failed to fully appreciate how deeply housing is implicated in the creation of poverty.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Sociologist

Born: Unknown

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