Unaffordable Rent Quotes

When I was born my parents lived in a flat so small that it now legally can't be rented out as a dwelling.

You see one eviction, and you're overcome, but then there's another one and another one and another one.

Children didn't shield families from eviction: They exposed them to it.

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

A lot of people's circumstances can change very, very quickly, and people can move jobs, relationships can break down, something else could happen, and the next thing you know, you can't pay your rent, you can't get the support you require, and you're out on the street.

I was working at Lowes and Target, then FedEx, and still did not have enough money to pay rent on my own.

It's true that eviction affects the young and the old, the sick and the able-bodied. It affects white folks and black folks and Hispanic folks and immigrants. If you spend time in housing court, you see a really diverse array of folks there.

Eviction affects old folks and young folks, sick people and able-bodied people, white communities and African-American communities.

Kids increase people's risk of eviction.

Families who get evicted tend to live in worse housing than they did before, and they live in neighborhoods with higher poverty rates and higher crime rates than they did before.

I'm not going around touring the U.S. when I've got nowhere to live.

A lot of people didn't know just what eviction does to people, how it really sets their life on a different and much more difficult path, acting not like a condition of poverty but a cause of it.

The high cost of housing is crushing poor families and sending them to a state of desperation.

The thing I've learned most about poverty is how expensive it is to be poor. It's super easy to pay rent every month if you earn enough to pay rent and have a decent job. It's super hard to pay rent if you need a coupon from the state and then need to go find an apartment that will accept that coupon and only that coupon.

In my own constituency, the benefit cap has had the effect of social cleansing: of people receiving benefit, but the benefit is capped; therefore, they can't meet the rent levels charged and are forced to move. It's devastating for children, devastating for the family and very bad for the community as a whole.

It is unacceptable that people often have to make huge sacrifices just to find a place to live, a roof over their heads.

Eviction often leads to a disruption in critical services like Medicaid and nutrition assistance when families need them most.

Eviction is part of a business model at the bottom of the market.

There is plenty of housing - for the rich. But a series of outrageous policies ensure that it remains inaccessible to the poor.

If you have someone who is paying 88 percent of her income on rent, and we have laws that allow a landlord to evict a tenant who falls behind under those circumstances, eviction becomes an inevitability.

I worked out; I moved 16 times from the age of 19, just hopping about from different flats, because I couldn't always afford to stay.

The face of the eviction epidemic is moms and kids, especially poor moms from predominantly Latino and African American neighborhoods.

Arguably, the families most at need of housing assistance are systematically denied it because they're stamped with an eviction record. Moms and kids are bearing the brunt of those consequences.

The face of America's eviction epidemic is a mom with kids.