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Matthew Desmond, "Poverty, By America"

After Words

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The Importance of Affordable Housing in Affluent Neighborhoods

When we have these kind of segregated communities, we can fall into this pattern of private opulence and public poverty. Those of us that withdraw from lower income communities often want to withdraw our taxes too. And the more that locks in, the more that it creates a kind of mass inequality in America. But I think diminishes us all. We should realize that.

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