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About Matthew Desmond
American sociologist
Matthew Desmond is an American sociologist and professor at Princeton University. He is known for his work on housing, poverty, and inequality, and for leading the Eviction Lab there. At Princeton, he serves as the Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology and as principal investigator of the Eviction Lab. He was formerly the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University, and was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2022.
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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…”Matthew Desmond
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- “We can start with housing, the sturdiest of footholds for economic mobility. A national affordable housing pr…”Matthew Desmond
- “National data on evictions aren't collected, although national data on foreclosures are. And so if anyone wan…”Matthew Desmond
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- “You cannot wipe out Dalit's poverty just by embracing poor children and spending nights in their huts.”Mayawati
- “The products your life must have could be in the form of scientific discoveries you have made.”Sunday Adelaja
- “I have made films on humor of poverty because I have lived in a lower middle class family.”Priyadarshan
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- “It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow.”Michael Ondaatje
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Books by Matthew Desmond
Evicted
2017
Race in America
2016