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Differences in homeownership rates remain the prime driver of the nation's racial wealth gap.

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I don't think we can fix poverty without fixing housing, and I don't think we can address housing without understanding landlords.

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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.

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I think that we value fairness in this country. We value equal opportunity. Without a stable home, those ideals really fall apart.

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A community that sees so clearly its own disadvantage or its own hardships also has a harder time seeing its potential: its ability to work together to change the community and change their lives.

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Many times when we are talking about displacement, we talk about it within the frame of gentrification, which focuses on transitioning neighborhoods. But man, every city I've looked at, Milwaukee included, most evictions are right there, smack dab in ungentrifying, poor, segregated communities.

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Home is the center of life. It's the wellspring of personhood. It's where we say we're ourselves.

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A lot of us who grew up in the country, hunting and fishing, being very familiar with the woods and dirt roads, have the skill set you need to fight fire.

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If incarceration had come to define the lives of men from impoverished black neighborhoods, eviction was shaping the lives of women. Poor black men were locked up. Poor black women were locked out.

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You do learn how to cope from those who are coping.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Sociologist

Born: Unknown

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