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X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Matthew Desmond: Unaffordable America: Housing, Profit, and Policy
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SUMMARY:Matthew Desmond: Unaffordable America: Housing, Profit, and Policy
DESCRIPTION:<p><strong>Matthew Desmond</strong>, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Social Studies, Harvard University.</p><p><!--break--></p><p><em><drupal-media data-entity-type="media" data-entity-uuid="78709e50-c190-43cf-8c94-c2be765a6693" data-align="right" data-view-mode="hwp_small"></drupal-media></em></p><p class="xmsonormal">Owing to rising housing costs, stagnant or falling incomes among the poor, and a shortfall of federal housing assistance, most poor renting families today devote over half their income to housing costs, and eviction has become commonplace in low-income communities.  Poor single mothers with young children, particularly African Americans, are at especially high risk of displacement. </p><p class="xmsonormal">This talk focuses on the prevalence and consequences of eviction—for parents, children, and neighborhoods.  It concludes with suggested policy remedies and a call to pull housing back to the center of the poverty debate. </p><p class="xmsonormal"><strong>View paper </strong>(Summary of key research findings)</p>
LOCATION:Harvard Kennedy School: Allison Dining Room
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DTSTART:20150330T160000Z
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