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Losing a home sends families to shelters, abandoned houses, and the street.

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Healthcare providers have helped me see that decent, safe housing can promote physical and mental wellness; and engaged citizens have shown me the civic potential of stable, vibrant blocks where neighbours know one another by name.

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A lot flows from the question: Is having decent, stable housing part of what it means to live in this country? And I think we should answer 'yes.'

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This was what a lot of us, mainly young men, did in the summers in northern Arizona. This is how I put myself through college. 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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My dad was a preacher.

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When I want to understand a problem, I want to understand it from the ground level.

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I'm from a small town, and I thought I would be a lawyer.

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This country has so much wealth and so much poverty, and that seemed wrong to me. 'Evicted' was my Ph.D. dissertation.

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I left college with a deep sense that I needed to understand poverty more.

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The poor don't want some small life. They don't want to game the system. They want to contribute, and they want to thrive. But poverty reduces people born for better things.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Sociologist

Born: Unknown

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