“Arleens children did not always have a home. They did not always have food. Arleen was not always able to offer them stability; stability cost too much. She was not always able to protect them from...”

“Arleen thanked Pana. Getting off the phone, she thanked Jesus. She smiled. When she smiled she looked like a different person. The press had loosened its grip. From landlords, she had heard eighty-...”

“One in two recently evicted mothers reports multiple symptoms of clinical depression, double the rate of similar mothers who were not forced from their homes. Even after years pass, evicted mothers...”

“By and large, the poor do not want some small life. They don't want to game the system or eke out an existence; they want to thrive and contribute.”

“No one thought the poor more undeserving than the poor themselves.”

“it is hard to argue that housing is not a fundamental human need. Decent, affordable housing should be a basic right for everybody in this country. The reason is simple: without stable shelter, eve...”

“Is it not true that in ancient times the worst punishment of all was not death, but banishment?”

“To die, is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her, Is self from self: a deadly banishment! What light is light, if Silvia be not seen? What joy is joy, if Silvia be not...”

“We all have individually special kingdoms of success in each of us. Obedience is the throne of those kingdoms without which the real person we are is sure to suffer eviction.”

“Eviction is a cause, not just a condition, of poverty.”

“Often, evicted families also lose the opportunity to benefit from public housing because Housing Authorities count evictions and unpaid debt as strikes when reviewing applications. And so people wh...”

“Above all others I pity the homeless: where can they go to masturbate?”

“We used to talk and smile seven days ago when I was wearing a suit. Now I'm dressed in a beard and smell of dog shit I dont even get eye contact. I ask her how her week is going, and she looks to h...”

“Homelessness is not the result of not having a house, it's lack of a soul in a body.”