If eviction has these massive consequences that we all pay for, a very smart use of public funds would be to invest in legal services for folks facing eviction.
If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.
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Shannon L. Alder
We all make choices, but in the end our choices make us.
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Ken Levine
We are the sum total of the decisions we have made.
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E.a. Bucchianeri
He spoke again as if he hadn’t just shattered his promise and her security. Her house of glass now lay in a pile of shards.
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Aleatha Romig
Be wise today so you don't cry tomorrow.
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E.a. Bucchianeri
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Arleen thanked Pana. Getting off the phone, she thanked Jesus. She smiled. When she smiled she looked like a different person. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>The press had loosened its grip. From landlords, she had heard eighty-nine nos but one yes. Jori accepted his mother’s high five....
Arleen’s children did not always have a home. They did not always have food. Arleen was not always able to offer them stability; stability cost too much. She was not always able to protect them from dangerous streets; those streets were her streets. <span style="margin:15px;...
One's sovereignty over the land is expressed most powerfully in the act of banishment. Perhaps the first eviction recorded in human history was Adam and Eve's.
One in two recently evicted mothers reports multiple symptoms of clinical depression, double the rate of similar mothers who were not forced from their homes. Even after years pass, evicted mothers are less happy, energetic, and optimistic than their peers. When several patients committed suicide...
By and large, the poor do not want some small life. They don't want to game the system or eke out an existence; they want to thrive and contribute.
