If you look like you're hiding something, we're more likely to swipe left.

A little flattery goes a long way.

Boldness is sexy, especially when it's done with a wink.

If he doesn't follow through with actions, he's either selfish or a liar. Neither makes him sound like The One, does it?

Eviction causes loss. You lose not only your home but also your possessions, which are thrown onto the curb or taken by movers, and often you can't keep up payments.

If we continue to tolerate this level of poverty in our cities, and go along with eviction as commonplace in poor neighborhoods, it's not for a lack of resources. It will be a lack of something else.

There were evictions that I saw that I know I'll never forget. In one case, the sheriff and the movers came up on a house full of children. The mom had passed away, and the children had just gone on living there. And the sheriff executed the eviction order - moved the kids' stuff out on the street on a cold, rainy day.

Differences in homeownership rates remain the prime driver of the nation's racial wealth gap.

Ours was not always a nation of homeowners; the New Deal fashioned it so, particularly through the G.I. Bill of Rights.

Just strictly from a business standpoint, kids are a liability to landlords, and they actually provoke evictions.

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.

Eviction comes with a record, too, and just as a criminal record can bar you from receiving certain benefits or getting a foothold in the labor market, the record of eviction comes with consequences as well. It can bar you from getting good housing in a good neighborhood.

I came to the realization of how essential a role housing plays in the lives of the poor.

It is very rare in the life of an intellectual to see your support network show up all at once.

The texture and hardship of poverty and eviction is something that I think left the deepest impression on me, and I hope that I try to convey a little bit of that to the reader.

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.

If we take a hard look at what poverty is, its nature, it's not pretty - it's full of trauma.

In a way, no one's harder on the poor than the poor themselves.

A community that sees so clearly its own disadvantage or its own hardships also has a harder time seeing its potential: its ability to work together to change the community and change their lives.

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

When you meet people who are spending 70, 80 percent of their income on rent, eviction becomes much more of an inevitability than the result of personal irresponsibility.

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.

African American women, and moms in particular, are evicted at disproportionately high rates.

You do learn how to cope from those who are coping.