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Poverty, the Housing Crisis and Lobster on Food Stamps w/ Matthew Desmond

Factually! with Adam Conover

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You Know, I've Had a Pretty Rough Time of It.

"I hope that we see housing rise to the top of the domestic agenda in 2020," he says. "We're not providing any recourse to folks who need housing." In Charlotte, North Carolina, court commissioners have a hundred-and-a-half hour eviction process because most people won't show up for it. The public defense is far from perfect; there's no such public defense in civil court, right? So if you have an eviction notice facing you, you have no right to an attorney and most folks that get an eviction notice don't show up to court.

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