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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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- “The home is the center of life. It is a refuge from the grind of work, the pressure of school, and the menace…”Matthew Desmond
- “I don't think that you can address poverty unless you address the lack of affordable housing in the cities.”Matthew Desmond
- “No one thought the poor more undeserving than the poor themselves.”Matthew Desmond
- “It's true that eviction affects the young and the old, the sick and the able-bodied. It affects white folks a…”Matthew Desmond
Reflections: more sayings
- “In the end, like so many beautiful promises in our lives, that dinner date never came to be.”Haruki Murakami
- “It's horrible when you train hard and your hands are not raised in the end.”Gilbert Burns
- “If nations perish, it is not because of their devotion to liberty, but for their disregard of its requirement…”William Lloyd Garrison
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Books by Matthew Desmond
Evicted
2017
Race in America
2016