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Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
Karl Marx / Philosopher
Love
Men
Philosophical
Reap
Landlords
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The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated.
Richard Cobden / British Statesman
Abuse
Long
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In a society rigged in favour of landlords over tenants, to rent privately is to be deprived of security.
Owen Jones / Columnist
Deprived
Favour
Rigged
Security
Landlords
Privately
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Just strictly from a business standpoint, kids are a liability to landlords, and they actually provoke evictions.
Matthew Desmond /
Liability
Standpoint
Landlords
Provoke
Strictly
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Too often, the landlord-tenant relationship is unbalanced with all the power on the side of unscrupulous landlords.
Nydia Velazquez / United States Representative
Relationship
Unbalanced
Side
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Hundreds of data-mining companies sell landlords tenant-screening reports that list past evictions and court filings.
Matthew Desmond /
Reports
Hundreds
Landlords
List
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Over 17 years, I took on banks, landlords, real estate firms, local governments, anybody who treated anybody unfairly.
Tim Kaine / United States Senator
Anybody
Banks
Estate
Governments
Landlords
Local
Local Governments
Real Estate
Took
Unfairly
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For families to access affordable housing, they often need legal representation that takes their side against abusive landlords.
Nydia Velazquez / United States Representative
Legal
Access
Affordable
Affordable Housing
Housing
Representation
Landlords
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I don't think we can fix poverty without fixing housing, and I don't think we can address housing without understanding landlords.
Matthew Desmond /
Housing
Poverty
Understanding
Address
Fix
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This is the first aspiration of countries: we are the landlords in our countries so that they remain free, and we can live in security.
Marine Le Pen / Member Of The European Parliament
Aspiration
Security
Countries
Landlords
Remain
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I was born to a dad who was born in the South Bronx while the Bronx was burning, while landlords were committing arson to their own buildings.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez /
Dad
Born
Bronx
Burning
Buildings
Committing
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South Bronx
While
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My mum raised three kids on her own on sweatshop wages of about six bucks an hour so there was a lot of late rent and landlords knocking on the door.
Anh Do / Author
Bucks
Mum
Raised
Six
Wages
Door
Hour
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Rent
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Human relationships used to be easy: you had friends, boy- or girlfriends, parents, children, and landlords. Now, thanks to social media, it's all gone sideways.
Susan Orlean / Journalist
Boys
Children
Girlfriend
Human Relationships
Sideways
Social Media
Thanks
Girlfriends
Landlords
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The cost of evictions varies a lot, but it could be for landlords an expensive process as well. Among the costs for landlords as well is the emotional costs of an eviction.
Matthew Desmond /
Cost
Expensive
Process
Among
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Varies
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Substantive and procedural law benefits and protects landlords over tenants, creditors over debtors, lenders over borrowers, and the poor are seldom among the favored parties.
John Turner / Former Prime Minister Of Canada
Benefits
Borrowers
Creditors
Debtors
Law
Party
Poor
Among
Favored
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Parties
Procedural
Protects
Seldom
Substantive
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To me, a New Yorker is someone that has general disdain toward landlords, mass-transit authorities, electric companies, sports-team managers, NYU and its students, and anything new.
Ad-Rock / Musician
Disdain
Electric
Managers
Nyu
Me New Anything
General
Authorities
Companies
Landlords
New Yorker
Toward
Yorker
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As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
Adam Smith / Philosopher
Men
Country
Demand
Economic Inequality
Land
Natural
Private Property
Produce
Property
Reap
Any
Even
Landlords
Other
Private
Rent
Soon
Where
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Child Protection Services can get all up in your business if you have kids. Just strictly from a business standpoint, kids are a liability to landlords, and they actually provoke evictions.
Matthew Desmond /
Liability
Protection
Standpoint
Landlords
Provoke
Strictly
Services
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The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in Poland, Hungary, and the South East generally.
Emily Greene Balch / Economist
East
Europe
First World War
Hungary
Poland
War World Europe
War World First
Feudal
First World
Generally
Landlords
Swept
World War
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Private landlords as well as public landlords are free to discriminate against people with criminal records for the rest of their lives. You come out of prison, and where are you expected to go?
Michelle Alexander / Professor
Prison
Criminal
Discriminate
Landlords
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I read 'The Young Landlords' and felt almost a chemical change. What I realized while reading that book was that I could write in my voice, use my tongue, my language, my style, and write a story.
Jason Reynolds /
Tongue
Chemical
Landlords
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You have to understand the role the landlords are playing in shaping neighborhoods, how they potentially expand or reduce inequality, how their profits are a direct result of some tenant's poverty.
Matthew Desmond /
Direct
Inequality
Poverty
Expand
Landlords
Neighborhoods
Potentially
Profits
Reduce
Result
Shaping
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If the demand for home commodities should be diminished, because of the fall of rent on the part of the landlords, it will be increased in a far greater degree by the increased opulence of the commercial classes.
David Ricardo / Economist
Home
Class
Fall
Opulence
Classes
Commercial
Commodities
Degree
Diminished
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Rent
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If there is 'right to buy' for council tenants and housing association properties, then why shouldn't that apply to all tenants? Some landlords are decent, very caring people, but some of them are truly appalling.
Jeremy Corbyn / Politician
Association
Caring
Council
Decent
Housing
Appalling
Landlords
Properties
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Poverty is a relationship that involves a lot of folks, rich and poor alike. I was looking for something that brought a lot of different people in a room. Eviction does that, embroils landlords and tenants, lawyers and social workers.
Matthew Desmond /
Relationship
Different
Folks
Poor
Poverty
Rich
Social
Workers
People Rich Poverty
Looking
Alike
Brought
Different People
Involves
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Room
Social Workers
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Eviction comes with a record. Just like a criminal record can hurt you in the jobs market, eviction can hurt you in the housing market. A lot of landlords turn folks away who have an eviction, and a lot of public housing authorities do the same.
Matthew Desmond /
Jobs
Folks
Housing
Housing Market
Hurt
Public Housing
Authorities
Criminal
Landlords
Market
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Since evictions go through court, it has a record that comes with it, and many landlords that I spend time with use that as a big screening mechanism. And that's really the reason, we think, families are pushed into worse housing and worse neighborhoods after their evictions.
Matthew Desmond /
Housing
Mechanism
Screening
Landlords
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Free verse seemed democratic because it offered freedom of access to writers. And those who disdained free verse would always be open to accusations of elitism, mandarinism. Open form was like common ground on which all might graze their cattle - it was not to be closed in by usurping landlords.
James Fenton / Poet
Access
Accusation
Cattle
Common
Common Ground
Democratic
Elitism
Free Verse
Might
Closed
Graze
Landlords
Offered
Seemed
Verse
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As a Manhattan resident, I'm gutted by what certain landlords are doing, pushing folks who have lived in their apartments for decades out of their homes, as a greedy tactic to get more rent from newer tenants. It's one of the most disgusting, inhumane things I've ever witnessed in my beautiful city.
Amanda Warren /
Beautiful City
Decades
Disgusting
Folks
Greedy
Inhumane
Manhattan
Pushing
Apartments
Homes
Landlords
Rent
Resident
Tactic
Witnessed
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There are a lot of people who probably enjoyed 'Conversations with Friends' who are part of the system that is actively exploiting other people's labour. I am sure there are landlords who read it and thought it was a great read. Am I happy that I have given those people 10 hours of distraction? Not really!
Sally Rooney /
Distraction
Enjoyed
Given
Hours
Labour
Great I Am People
Actively
Conversations
Exploiting
Landlords
System
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The cottages erected by farmers or by landlords are now, one and all, fit and proper habitations for human beings; and I verifly believe it would be impossible throughout the length and breadth of Wiltshire to find a single bad cottage on any large estate, so well and so thoroughly have the landed proprietors done their work.
Richard Jefferies / Writer
Breadth
Length
Cottage
Landed
Estate
Landlords
Proper
Thoroughly
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