Molly

“We have failed to fully appreciate how deeply housing is implicated in the creation of poverty. Not everyone living in a distressed neighborhood is associated with gang members, parole officers, employers, social workers, or pastors. But nearly all of them have a landlord.”
― Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

“What else is a nation but a patchwork of cities and towns; cities and towns a patchwork of neighborhoods; and neighborhoods a patchwork of homes?”
― Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

“All struggles Are essentially power struggles, And most are no more intellectual than two rams knocking their heads together.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

“I didn’t know how bad it would be or when it would come. But everything was getting worse: the climate, the economy, crime, drugs, you know. I didn’t believe we would be allowed to sit behind our walls, looking clean and fat and rich to the hungry, thirsty, homeless, jobless, filthy people outside.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower