Find the practice.
See it in the book.

“The lifetime limit for cash welfare to poor parents is five years, but families claiming the mortgage interest deduction may do so for the length of the mortgage, typically thirty years. A fifteen-story public housing tower and a mortgaged suburban home are both government subsidized, but only one looks (and feels) that way.”

“we must look beyond the poor…”

“We investigated this as well…”

The chapter asks why poor renters do not simply move to a better area, then names emergency moves, application records, credit and discrimination as obstacles. Lakia Higbee’s rent-versus-mortgage example is followed by an account of lenders’ incentives and limited access to small mortgages.

At the start of the remedy section, Desmond restates how the book argues poverty is produced: exploitation, subsidies favoring affluence and exclusive communities. He associates each category with domains and decisions developed in earlier chapters.

Near the end of Chapter 9, a single sentence gathers rebalanced public provision, reduced exploitation and reduced segregation into the proposed response. It makes the relationship between the three remedy chapters and the earlier diagnosis explicit.