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Poverty Rooted In Evictions, Lack Of Affordable Housing. Matthew Desmond, November 16, 2016, Audio, "Eviction is not a condition of poverty; eviction causes poverty. That’s according to Matthew Desmond. He’s a sociologist at Harvard and he just wrote the book, “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City.” In it, Desmond says poor families are more susceptible to evictions. Evictions force kids out of schools, parents from jobs and families…
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Forced relocation and residential instability among urban renters. Matthew Desmond, June 1, 2015, Paper. “Residential instability often brings about other forms of instability in families, schools, and communities that compromise the life chances of adults and children. Social scientists have found that low-income families move frequently without fully understanding why. Drawing on novel data of more than 1,000 Milwaukee renters, this article…
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Is Democratic Regulation of High Finance Possible? Matthew Desmond, September 2013, Paper. "Cristie Ford’s paper is about the strengths and limitations of applying sophisticated regulatory design – flexible regulation as opposed to hard and fast traditional forms – to increasingly complex financial systems. The argument itself is complex..." Link