Fran Quigley

I am happy to announce that my new book, Lessons From Eviction Court: How We Can End Our Housing Crisis, will be published soon by @CornellPress. Our clients teach my students and I about our broken housing system, and how it can be fixed. Pre-order link in comments.

.@FranQuigley: "When behavioral economists study how people evaluate financial trade-offs, it is wealthier subjects who make irrational choices." jacobin.com/2026/03/povert… #UnitedStates

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.@FranQuigley: "Beyond a few isolated projects, the #UnitedStates does not have a guaranteed minimum income program, despite such programs’ proven effectiveness at meeting basic needs like food, shelter, and health care." jacobin.com/2026/01/us-saf…

The less desperate workers are, the harder it is to get them to accept poor wages and conditions. Employers know this full well, and they acted on this knowledge to kill popular Covid-era programs that granted stability: jacobin.com/2025/11/welfar…

.@FranQuigley: "The struggles of US public housing were not inevitable. There are several public housing success stories across the country, thriving communities that have managed to survive institutional neglect." jacobin.com/2025/09/afford… #UnitedStates

.@FranQuigley: "The suffering we see in eviction court can be traced directly to the lack of enforceable economic rights in the #UnitedStates." commondreams.org/opinion/us-nee…

The suffering we see in eviction court can be traced directly to the lack of enforceable economic rights in the US, says @FranQuigley. commondreams.org/opinion/us-nee…

.@FranQuigley: "Beyond the demonizing and harassment directed to visibly unhoused people, there is another deeply damaging outcome from all this political, media, and advocacy attention: Unhoused families are being ignored." commondreams.org/opinion/homele… #UnitedStates

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In the latest episode of The Indiana Lawyer Podcast, @FranQuigley, a clinical professor of law at IU McKinney, talks about the faults in Indiana's legal system that exasperate an already significant eviction crisis. Listen on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/388Snv…

As many of our clinic clients can attest, well-trained, dedicated experts who answer to the people instead of some wealthy donors are the gold standard for housing inspection and code enforcement, says @FranQuigley. commondreams.org/opinion/govern…

.@FranQuigley: "The government-harms shtick is just as false today as in Reagan’s time. Study after study shows that government assistance with food, healthcare, and housing makes tangible, positive impacts on people’s lives, from newborns to the elderly." commondreams.org/opinion/govern…

.@FranQuigley: "The film’s core theme is the enormous social cost that comes with the #UnitedStates’ commitment to treating housing as a wealth-building commodity, rather than as an essential need and human right." jacobin.com/2025/06/housin…

Deepening connections between U.S. labor unions and renters has helped spur the creation of tenants unions that are winning concessions across the country, writes @FranQuigley. wagingnonviolence.org/2025/04/labor-…

A significant portion of our nation’s unhoused population are SSI recipients, limited to an income that doesn’t come close to covering the costs of housing, food, transportation, clothing, and other necessities, writes @FranQuigley. commondreams.org/opinion/increa…

“Court watchers often know more about systemic housing issues than the elected officials they are talking to.” buff.ly/dSRRBRf By @FranQuigley

Court proceedings are open to the public, and several other communities across the country, in places like Greensboro, North Carolina; Houston, and Chicago, have court-watching programs, often connected to justice advocacy, writes @FranQuigley commondreams.org/opinion/go-to-…

.@FranQuigley: "The eviction court watchers go beyond the doors of the courtrooms. They take the proximity-provided lessons and use them to advocate with elected officials and the judges themselves." commondreams.org/opinion/go-to-… #UnitedStates

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I am happy to announce that my new book, Lessons From Eviction Court: How We Can End Our Housing Crisis, will be published soon by @CornellPress. Our clients teach my students and I about our broken housing system, and how it can be fixed. Pre-order link in comments.