A Quote by Matthew Desmond

You have to understand the role the landlords are playing in shaping neighborhoods, how they potentially expand or reduce inequality, how their profits are a direct result of some tenant's poverty.

Matthew Desmond

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Direct Expand How Inequality Landlords Neighborhoods Playing Potentially Poverty Profits Reduce Result Role Shaping Some Understand

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Matthew Desmond
American - Sociologist

How our governments need standards of integrity! How our communities need yardsticks to measure decency! How our neighborhoods need models of beauty and cleanliness! How our schools need continued encouragement and assistance to maintain high educational standards! Rather than spend time complaining about the direction in which these institutions are going, we need to exert our influence in shaping the right direction. A small effort by a few can result in so much good for all of mankind.

L. Tom Perry

There are some people who say that they?re concerned only with poverty but not inequality. But I don?t think that is a sustainable thought. A lot of poverty is, in fact, inequality because of the connection between income and capability?having adequate resources to take part in the life of the community.

Amartya Sen

Most of us working on poverty alleviation simply want to know, 'How much poverty can I reduce for every dollar I donate?'

Leila Janah

Let there be no mistake, Sen Sanders, his campaign and the vigorous debate that we've had about how to raise incomes, how to reduce inequality, increase upward mobility, has been very good for the Democratic Party and for America.

Hillary Clinton

Too often, the landlord-tenant relationship is unbalanced with all the power on the side of unscrupulous landlords.

Nydia Velazquez

Today, the United States is No. 1 in corporate profits, No. 1 in CEO salaries, No. 1 in childhood poverty and No. 1 in income and wealth inequality in the industrialized world.

Bernie Sanders

Playing sports is great when you're young. It teaches you how to focus, how to direct your energy, how not to think about a million other things that are going on.

Elsa Hosk

Hundreds of data-mining companies sell landlords tenant-screening reports that list past evictions and court filings.

Matthew Desmond

If you're playing a lead, you're shaping the movie. When you're playing a supporting role, you've got only a moment to make it count.

Stephen Rea

A university is not, primarily, a place in which to learn how to make a living; it is a place in which to learn how to be more fully a human being, how to draw upon one's resources, how to discipline the mind and expand the imagination; how to make some sense out of the big world we will shortly be thrown into.

Sydney J. Harris

There's always going to be some guys not satisfied with the minutes or how they're playing or what their role is. That's normal.

Nikola Jokic

I think there's such a fine line in a relationship. The role of imagination and privacy... how much space can you allow before that becomes distance? And similarly, imagination is empathy. That's how you achieve empathy. It's how you can be with another person and understand how they are in the world.

Katie Kitamura

What I am is a direct result of how I was raised.

Troy Aikman

Some of the roots of role-playing games (RPGs) are grounded in clinical and academic role assumption and role-playing exercises.

Gary Gygax

The trends that are shaping the twenty-first-century world embody both promise and peril. Globalization, for example, has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty while contributing to social fragmentation and a massive increase in inequality, not to mention serious environmental damage.