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My dad was a preacher.
A fire in a forest is alive with terror and power.
You do learn how to cope from those who are coping.
Eviction is fundamentally changing the face of poverty.
Housing is a social issue: how we live and where we live.
I'm from a small town, and I thought I would be a lawyer.
The face of America's eviction epidemic is a mom with kids.
The church should lead on issues of housing and affordability.
An eviction is an incredibly time consuming and stressful event.
Eviction is part of a business model at the bottom of the market.
Everywhere else, we are someone else, but at home, we remove our masks.
Children didn't shield families from eviction: They exposed them to it.
The things you're closest to are often the things you know least about.
Eviction is much more an inevitability than a result of irresponsibility.
I come from a specific tradition of sociology, which is urban ethnography.
Losing a home sends families to shelters, abandoned houses, and the street.
Housing being a top-order issue for cities is something that's not trivial.
Poverty was a relationship, I thought, involving poor and rich people alike.
You can get out of maintaining property at code if the family is behind on rent.
Exploitation. Now, there's a word that has been scrubbed out of the poverty debate.
All homeowners in America may deduct mortgage interest on their first and second homes.
Fire itself is very beautiful, and there's an attachment to fire that firefighters have.
If poverty persists in America, it is not for lack of resources. We lack something else.
I came to the realization of how essential a role housing plays in the lives of the poor.
It takes a good amount of time and money to establish a home. Eviction can erase all that.
Eviction reveals people's vulnerability and desperation as well as their ingenuity and guts.
Differences in homeownership rates remain the prime driver of the nation's racial wealth gap.
If we take a hard look at what poverty is, its nature, it's not pretty - it's full of trauma.
African American women, and moms in particular, are evicted at disproportionately high rates.
The high cost of housing is crushing poor families and sending them to a state of desperation.
It is very rare in the life of an intellectual to see your support network show up all at once.
We have failed to fully appreciate how deeply housing is implicated in the creation of poverty.
There are moving companies specializing in evictions, their crews working all day, every weekday.
Housing is absolutely essential to human flourishing. Without stable shelter, it all falls apart.
Home is the center of life. It's the wellspring of personhood. It's where we say we're ourselves.
'Sag Harbor' brought me a new readership - it's a coming of age tale about growing up in the '80s.
I fought fires in the summer, and then I went back and did it again when I went to graduate school.
I had come to college believing in a story that if you worked hard, the American dream was reachable.
If we care about family stability, if we care about community stability, then we need fewer evictions.
American greatness can be further unlocked if opportunity is expanded to all people within its borders.
If you just catalog the effects eviction has on people's live and neighborhoods, it's pretty troubling.
I see myself working in the tradition of sociology and journalism that tries to bear witness to poverty.
You see one eviction, and you're overcome, but then there's another one and another one and another one.
When you fight fires for a few seasons, you know what to expect. Your heart doesn't race as much as it did.
I don't think that you can address poverty unless you address the lack of affordable housing in the cities.
I see myself writing in the tradition of urban ethnography and in the tradition of the sociology of poverty.
I felt that writing about peoples' lives was a heck of a responsibility, and I wanted to know them in a deep way.
Just strictly from a business standpoint, kids are a liability to landlords, and they actually provoke evictions.
Hundreds of data-mining companies sell landlords tenant-screening reports that list past evictions and court filings.
Most cities don't have a just cause eviction law. Most allow no cause evictions, as well as evictions for nonpayment.